Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...snowy night of Dec. 13, a taxi pulled up at Derek Bok's four-bedroom house in Belmont, Mass. Out stepped a well-tailored Boston lawyer wearing crimson socks. He was Francis Burr, Senior Fellow (chairman) of Harvard University's governing corporation. His mission: to offer the dean of Harvard's law school a new job as the university's 25th president. Bok, 40, recalls that he was "astounded...
...Thursday, January 14, 1971, you printed certain statements by Cambridge Mayor Alfred Vellucei. Francis H. Burr '35 declined to respond. Following you find a verbatim copy of a letter which I sent to Mr. Vellucei giving him my reactions to his statement...
Francis H. Burr '35, Senior Fellow of the Corporation and the man who led the search for the new President, declined comment yesterday on Vellucci's remarks...
...impossible. Friends, casual acquaintances, and men who knew Burr only through one of the 5000 personal responses he sent out during the search singled him out to offer their congratulations. Burr's search had involved some 60 hours of work per week since early in the fall and over 500 interviews...
...time to be resolutely optimistic-and once again turn the spotlight toward Bok. Burr graciously acknowledged each compliment on his choice, but shortly turned to a small notice board to find the room number for the luncheon. It crumbled to the floor as he touched...