Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...current plan, based on a suggestion made last Spring by Benjamin W. Labaree, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Winthrop House, would set up five smaller units of organization within the present physical structure of the Yard. "Senior advisers" would be the administrative heads of each complex, and some section men would live among the freshmen...
...confirming his appointment, Stewart, who was Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Adams House from 1955 to 1960, declared yesterday, "Having been there for five years, I know what the House feels like, and it's as though I'm returning home...
Although completely reworded by the Committee on Educational Policy during the last month, the motion adopted remains essentially the same as that presented to the Faculty in January and originally proposed by Richard T. Gill '48, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Leverett House. The alterations made tended to enlarge departmental freedom in interpreting and implementing the program...
Harvard's name has been associated with many previous educational innovations. Free electives, fields of concentration, widespread Honors tutorial, and General Education all had their roots in Cambridge. Of course, many of these changes involved large expenditures; few other colleges enjoyed the benefits of a Harkness, Burr, or Widener, or of an $82.5 million Program. But the material changes brought by the Program--Quincy and Leverett, a Le Corbusier Design Center on stilts, a Health Center--are only ancillary to education. Many vital parts of the College, such as the Library, gained little from the drive, perhaps since graduates prefer...
...proposal to abolish the Honors program was made by Richard T. Gill '48, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Leverett House...