Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barney Frank '62, Aliston Burr Senior Winthrop House, has been advising students in the draft-eligible portions class definitely to take the test. He feels that it would be "very surprising" for a Harvard student not to gain exemption on the basis of his scores...
Carl R. Rogers, noted clinical psychologist, called for a revolution of teaching methods in a speech to overflow crowds in Lowell Lecture Hall and Burr A last night...
Speaking in Lowell with a hook-up to Burr, Rogers, who is currently a Resident Fellow at the Western Behavorial Science Institute in La Jolla, Calif., called teaching a "vastly overrated function," and described the real goal of teachers as the facilitation of learning. The trully educated man, he said, is the man who has learned how to learn...
...Fire Department had sought to build a fire station in contemporary style on the triangle across from Mem Hall, but was told by the University that it would clash with the older building. The department built it in Georgian style instead--and then the University went ahead and built Burr Hall, to the firemen's chagrin. When the fire broke out, the story goes, they watched the tower burning from across the street and told inquirers that they didn't have enough water pressure to reach the blaze...
Writing to Ravel. She is, in short, the acknowledged queen of spy story writers, and a handsome queen of great charm to boot. Possessed of a Scottish burr and a Glasgow University master of arts degree, she married Gilbert Highet, an Oxford don, in 1932. Five years later, Highet was invited to lecture at Columbia, and the Highets moved to New York with their three-year-old son Keith, now 32 and a Manhattan lawyer. The Highets were so taken with Columbia and New York that they decided to remain; they became citizens...