Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eighty-two percent of undergraduates polled by the CRIMSON yesterday expressed their disapproval of the University's plan to build a new Varsity Club with part of the money left by the late Allston Burr '89. Sixty-nine percent of those who identified themselves as members of varsity teams also voted against the project...
Inadequacy of the present building was the reason most frequently cited by athletes, for approving the University's project. Burr's expressed interest in a new Varsity Club was listed by over half of them, as was the attraction of better athletes to the College. A few mentioned morale and the "moral obligation" of the University to build a Varsity Club with Burr's bequest...
...with the Houses, around which college life in the future must be centered. This motion was proposed by James F. Hornig '50 and Herbert P. Gleason '50. Gleason is not a Council member but served on the Council's committee to investigate the background of the bequest of Allston Burr '39, from which the $250,000 needed to build the Varsity Club will be drawn. Four Council members supported this plan in the final vote...
...grounds that the Corporation is under a "definite moral obligation" toward Burr to build a new club and that a new varsity club would give a boost to the "now poor morale" of athletic teams, Henry M. Silveira '51 and John T. Coan '50 recommended that the Council approve the College's present plans. Five members backed this proposal...
Richard T. Button '50 had suggested that the Burr funds be directed toward some other athletic need since the Varsity Club did not seem to pressing...