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...This has been a touchy period and some people on both sides have been abrasive. I think she has been very good at seeing the right thing and not creating trouble and frustrations," says Radcliffe trustee and executive committee member Francis H. Burr...
Horner supposedly does not exercise the control over the trustees that Bunting did, which has sparked some speculation that a configuration on the executive board of the trustees--Lyman, Burr and Mary Bundy '46, vice-chairman of the trustees and the wife of former dean of the Faculty McGeorge Bundy--is, in fact, the inspiration behind Radcliffe...
...number of Yankee ladies into the same pose and dress, both copied from a 15-year-old London illustration (see pictures, previous column). There follow more than a hundred full-page portraits of colonial gentry, and of Revolutionary celebrities from (of course) Washington to John Adams and Aaron Burr, as well as portraits of some of the American painters for whom they sat. Each personality has a facing page of biography. The faces often encourage long and fascinated scrutiny. The biographies, though they are mostly fashioned of pure cardboard, help a good deal to familiarize the reader with the names...
...leader of small forces in hot combat, but the semiliterate general knows and cares little about problems like planning and supply. Putnam is presently second in command in New York. To help him with administration Washington has assigned him an aide from his own staff, Major Aaron Burr, 20, a sparrow-sized scholar from Princeton, New Jersey, who fought with distinction in the battle for Quebec...
Such interdisciplinary programs run entirely against the each-tub-on-its-own-bottom structure of the University; as Francis H. Burr '35, senior fellow of the Corporation, says, "If selection and promotion of faculty is done within departments, it's very hard to get people to think in interdepartmental, interdisciplinary terms, because that's not where the rewards are. Something has got to evolve, exactly what is going to come up I don't know. The most conservative body in the world is a faculty, especially a Faculty of arts and sciences." While Bok downplays the difficulties of setting...