Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hope to gosh she's coming," says Burr...
President Derek C. Bok declined to explain the reasons behind the decision. Francis H. Burr '35, a former senior fellow of the Corporation and an organizer of the 350th, said he felt Harvard awards too many honorary degrees anyway and that a degree ceremony would detract from the birthday celebration...
...said we ought to have a good time at it, but we should do more than just get up before the world and say, `Look how wonderful we are!'" says Francis H. Burr '35, the former senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation and chairman of the 350th Anniversary Celebration Commission...
...would have said all along it was a 50-50 chance," says Burr of a presidential appearence at the 350th. He believes that "a combination of reading about disturbances endemic to academic commencements and terrorism," not a reaction to Harvard's honorary degree dictum, led Reagan's advisors to recommend against his attending the celebration...
...presence of the President is bound to add something to an occasion whether you like him as President or not," says Burr. "I hope we can find someone sufficently recognized and sufficently interesting--but there is a problem of time. It's hard to get someone of international stature on such short notice. But I hope it won't make that big a difference...