Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During a debate which preceded the council resolution, Herbert P. Gleason '50 said that Allston Burr '89--who made the $1,500,000 grant of which one sixth is earmarked toward a varsity club--had made no stipulations in his will about where his money should...
...private conversation, Gleason asserted, Burr had told him that he was not wholly familiar with the needs of the University and was prepared to let the administration make the decisions...
...proposed construction of a new Varsity Club is also on the Council's agenda for tonight. At last week's meeting, debate on the issue broke down when it was discovered that no one knew specifically to what extent the Corporation was committed by the will of Allston Burr '89 to build a Varsity Club...
...CRIMSON article states that Allston Burr of the Class of 1889 has left an unrestricted gift of $1,500,000 to the University. If converted into dollar bills and laid end to end, this sum would stretch from Cambridge to somewhere south of Hartford on the Wilbur Cross Highway. If used more intelligently, the income would pay all the expenses for the Harvard education of 15 men a year. Otherwise, the sum might by put into the running endowment to lower the tuition or the room and board bills, or to renew such institutions as the training table. It could...
...same has been the case with the Allston Burr request. There has been no crying need for a new Varsity Club. We are willing to grant that the building needs some renovating, but since the cancellation of the training table, the chief needs seems to be a renewal of the functions which make a varsity club operate, not a new clubhouse. There is, however, need for a hockey rink and an auditorium with facilities for theatrical productions. The new student activities center building is sadly outdated. Provided with money which might answer some if not all of these needs, needs...