Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening meeting at 2:30 p.m. today in Burr Hall, Professor Owsei Temkin of Johns Hopkins University will speak on "The Elusiveness of Paracelsus," and Lloyd Brown of Peabody Institute Library will talk on "The Revival of Cladius Ptolemy...
...Theories of Generation in the Renaissance" will be discussed by Professor Conway Zirkle of the University of Pennsylvania at 8 p.m. tonight in Fogg. Meetings tomorrow morning in Burr Hall will feature Charles S. Singleton, professor of Romance Languages and Literature, and Professor Exwin Panofsky of the Institute of Advanced Study. All the meetings are open to the public...
...long as the Fogg Large Room is the only spare hall which the Registrar's Office can fall back on when the big courses come hot and heavy, there is some excise for its use. But now that Burr Hall has opened in all its vitreous glory, there is no longer any reason for damning undergraduates to the depths of Fogg. The new building contains two lecture halls, each with a seating capacity of over two hundred, enough to take care of most large courses...
Noticing the steep pitch at which Burr Hall's plush-backed seats are set, some people have claimed that examinations there would strain Harvard's keep-temptation to-a-minimum policy. But this danger is only present in courses whose exams require terse and short answers. Since final exams in most courses are of the essay type--it takes more than a quick wandering plance to gain any profit from a neighbor's essay--this objection is quite limited and easily overcome...
Addresses during the weekend conference are scheduled in the Alston Bur Lecture Hall, and there will be special exhibitions concurrently in Fogg Art Museum and the Houghton Library, Registration time is 9 a.m. Friday at Fogg; the first session will begin at 2:30 p.m. that afternoon at the Burr Lecture Hall...