Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whitney Museum displayed sculptures, watercolors and drawings by 172 contemporary U.S. artists. As always with selections of such scope, a good bit was bad. But Burr Miller's marble Chrysalis showed how a sensitive chisel can tease stone to life, and Saul Baizerman's Eve proved that it is also possible to hammer life into a sheet of copper. The water-colors ranged from the sweet, wet realism of Californian John Langley Howard's Coast Line to New Yorker Hans Hofmann's wholly abstract and strikingly handsome Composition...
Funds to finance the GE building will come from the unrestricted bequest, of Allston Burr '89, and the classroom structure will be named the Allston Burr Lecture Hall in his honor...
Naming the new lecture hall for Burr makes further action on the new Varsity Club which the University announced last spring still less likely since the new hall would in part fulfill the "moral obligation" that proponents of a new Varsity Club claimed the University owed Burr's memory...
Provost Buck said yesterday that the GE building would not consume all of the Burr bequest, and that this use of the funds in no way affected the Varsity Club one way or the other. Estimated cost of the Varsity Club...
...modern design, the building's two large lecture halls will appear as interlocking arcs in the exterior form of the structure. Burr will be the Colleges first new classroom building since 1905, when Emerson was built. Two large lecture halls will accommodate 377 and 210 students...