Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second general meeting on Feb. 15, 150 teaching fellows gathered in Burr to endorse overwhelmingly the committee's recommendation that the organization address itself initially to the wages and work load problem. The subcommittee had ingeniously proposed that a petition be used to present the salary request to the University. Once approved, by the organization, the petition would be signed by as many TF's as possible, giving the leadership a fairly legitimate claim to representing the teaching fellows in salary talks without actually being their bargaining agent. The meeting approved the subcommittee's petition as a "guideline" for talks...
...future of the Federation is sure to become clearer in the weeks ahead, however, as it moves toward its first official contact with the University. Most of the Feb. 15 meeting took place under two words which were scrawled on the Burr A blackboard during the first minutes of discussion: "Fairness" and "Effectiveness." If the Federation can resolve the two to the satisfaction of most of Harvard's teaching fellows, the unhappy TF's may at last have found the voice they want
...which, according to the tenor of the letter sent to all Teaching Fellows the previous week only those already interested in forming a permanent organization had been invited. The great majority of Teaching Fellows apparently do not feel that they are sufficiently badly treated to warrant a stroll to Burr Hall on a pleasant spring-like evening...
...apotheosis of the gallant American White Collar Girl won her an Oscar. In Magnificent Doll, she plays Dolley Madison. Forced into a role that is above her head and a script that is beneath her, she utters Dolley's immortal words to the jailed traitor Aaron Burr (David Niven): "I hope all this will make you think, Aaron...
...proposal, that students be allowed to take one of their regular four courses pass-fail, was drafted by Martin Slate '67, HPC representative from Winthrop House, Bruce W. Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House, and Standish H. Meacham, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Winthrop House...