Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alumni reaction to the Allston Burr Lecture Hall, however, seems to indicate that many feel the architects have gone too far and that the building "will remain as a blot on Harvard for all time." such terms as "inhuman pile," "false," "unsightly," and "incongruous" have been used by indignant graduates in describing the building...
...Support Burr Hall...
...reply, almost all the professors, who are likely to use the building, yesterday gave Burr Hall their complete support...
...building is going to be tough on the fire department." Several years ago, the City of Cambridge went to a great deal of trouble to erect a new fire station in Georgian style north of the Yard so that "it would blend in with the other buildings." Modernistic Burr Hall will be just across the street...
...Allston Burr '89, for whom the new General Education building was named, was chairman of the committee which aided the construction of Memorial Church. This prompted one graduate to say that the very fact that Burr helped in the building of the chapel shows clearly how he would have opposed the new hall...