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...members of the law faculty, have indicated that they would favor the appointment of Potter Stewart, Ohio, Justice of the Federal Court of Appeals, to succeed retiring Justice Reed to the Supreme Court. Justice Stewart is the brother of Zeph Stewart, associate professor of Greek and Latin, and Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Adams House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Howe Favors Ohio Justice For Reed Post | 2/6/1957 | See Source »

Sutherland will give the first lecture this Friday at 9 a.m. in Burr A on the subject of "Community Interest and In dividual Rights." Subsequent lecturers will include James Shurtleff, former City Manager of Medford; Frank E. Horack, Jr., professor of Law at Indiana University; Charles Ascher, professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College; C. McKim Norton, executive director of the New York Regional Plan Association; Blucher; and Tugwell. The series is in honor of Frank Backus Williams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Series on City Planning Commences | 2/6/1957 | See Source »

...originally named Burrville after Aaron Burr. When Burr was tried for treason, the town's name was changed to Clinton in honor of Vice President George Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: The True Face of Clinton | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

Ziffren spoke loftily of its value in advancing Democratic programs and principles. But the strategists recognized his bid for what Ziffren meant it to be: a rearguard action to preserve the dwindling prestige of the Stevensonites, and a liberal burr under the saddles of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and his congressional conservatives, who consider themselves the seat of party authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Gadfly from California | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

Opdycke attacked the idea of setting up a special studio center for students of fine and applied arts as a "burr" on the University's museum facilities. Such a center would tend toward a professional art school, with little use to Fine Arts students seeking an understanding of the elements of painting, he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fine Arts Department Opposes Overseers' Visual Arts Report | 12/8/1956 | See Source »

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