Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the 69 names include several persons whom the Corporation has not had time to check completely, Francis H. Burr '35, Senior Fellow of the Corporation, said the opportunity of adding names was still open, but chances were very slim...
...Corporation must still cut down the number of persons under consideration to less than 15 before it will "go underground" to make its final decision, according to Burr. It may have already narrowed the field to less than 30 in anticipation of the twice-a-year Board of Overseers meeting being held in Cambridge this weekend. But there is no chance the final decision will be announced by Thanksgiving, as many had expected, Burr said, and less than a 50-50 chance of an announcement before Christmas vacation begins...
...moved from cold to warm, but I wouldn't say we're hot," John M. Blum '43, a junior Fellow on the Corporation, said last Sunday. Burr called the compilation of the list a step to the "second plateau...
...Maybe we made a mild miscalculation," Burr admitted. "I thought there would be more student groups that would put themselves together. But the reaction we've gotten has been both friendly and helpful. I was in college myself at the time Conant was chosen. I remember I was deeply and completely uninterested...
...There were proposals for "also a Harvard Theatre." And, there was a specific proposal for the integration of the Harvard Theatre with the other activities of the University. But is it integration when the Charles Eliot Norton lecturer has to plan busing to M.I.T.'s Kresge Auditorium, Sanders Theatre, Burr B, an unfinished building in the Business School, a new law school building, or the Harvard Square Cinema...