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...Harvard, reaction to the new building is ranging from approval to outrage. John Coolidge, professor of architectural history, calls the building "brilliant," at once "striking, convenient and, above all, a sympathetic setting for works of art." Counters Law Professor Charles M. Haar: "The Sackler is even uglier than the Burr Lecture Hall that was there before. The site must be cursed by Apollo." The Sackler's alternately amusing and infuriating clash of details may blind critics to its innovations. The theatrical staircase, for example, clearly separates three stories of public exhibitions at one side of the building from five stories...
Also on the Corning board with Stone are Francis H. Burr '35, who sat on the Corporation for 28 years until 1982, and Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky, the former dean of the Faculty...
Francis Hardon Burr '35, a senior partner with the Boston law firm of Ropes & Gray, is chairman of the trustees of Massachusetts General and McLean Hospitals. In 1982, he retired his position as Senior Fellow of the governing Harvard Corporation, which he served on for 28 years. Burr now sits on the steering committee for Harvard's 350th Anniversary Celebration, and will receive a Harvard Medal this week for his service to the University. today. Between Boston and New York the preferred method of travel was by steamer--either for the entire distance through the Cape Cod Canal, which...
...fact, the CRR appears to be more flexible in its available methods and responses. Furthermore, the charge that the ideological similarity of the faculty members of the Committee renders objective decisions difficult is hard to understand. Surely the Administrative Board, overwhelmingly composed of members of the Administration (Allston Burr Senior Tutors and various Deans of the Faculty and the College), presents a more unified bloc than would a committee of seven members elected from a diverse faculty and six student representatives...
...think it is a real problem for many transfers not to live on campus," says John R. Marquand, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Dudley House. "This leads to other difficulties for them--in particular the feeling that they do not know anyone. They also have the feeling that they are second-class citizens, and that they aren't real members of the community...