Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Francis H. Burr, a member of the seven-man Corporation for 28 years, said in a press release yesterday that he will leave this spring to devote more time to his duties on several other corporation boards and to his position as a senior law partner in Harvard's consulting law firm, Repos and Gray...
...remaining members will institute a search and choose Burr's replacement probably within a year, Fred L. Glimp, vice president of the University for development and alumni affairs said yesterday...
...Burr said that the proposed Fogg expansion differed significantly from several recent construction projects for University hockey and basketball facilities...
...money is going to come in for [athletics]," Burr said. "But on this one [the Fogg], they had been back to the well so many times" that there did not seem a good chance of raising the remaining money...
...Burr confirmed the impression held by Ackerman and others of the Corporation's outlook by saying. "We have been burnt many times before and it's cost a lot of money. There have been many times that we felt foolish, when in retrospect we would have been better to cancel the whole thing...