Word: burrs
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...most instances, a student called before the ad board of the College is represented by his Assistant Dean of Freshmen or his Allston Burr Senior Tutor. The student can choose to be present as well...
...Suzanne McCarthy, co-master of Pforzheimer House and Allston Burr Senior Tutor Dirk M. Killen '82 were transported to the hospital by HUPD to be with Palmer-Sherman. More than a dozen of her friends also gathered in the intensive care unit waiting room...
...Harvard pride (or at the very least, a sense of differentiation from everyone else) is reinforced on a regular basis by the vocabularies and traditions we adopt during our time here. Harvard loves its history, and has its own terms to accentuate its uniqueness. Our Houses, concentrations and Allston Burr Senior Tutors are all part of the Harvard College package, unavailable at the college nearest you. We get used to daily visits by world leaders and national figures, and sightings of celebrity classmates scarcely turn our heads...
...morality do sometimes overlap, but mostly, the law is an arbitrary set of rules that tries, however imperfectly and even nobly, to make sense of human behavior. The law, as Aaron Burr (who was not a notable upholder of it) once said, is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained...
Finally Alexander Hamilton, who deeply distrusted Burr, persuaded enough Federalists to go to Jefferson--"I trust," he said, "the Federalists will not finally be so mad as to vote for Burr"--that the House at last elected Jefferson on the 36th ballot. (Four years later, Burr killed Hamilton in a duel.) The crisis of 1800 led to reform: the 12th Amendment required that the Electoral College must thereafter vote separately for President and Vice President...