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...smoking but in the patronizingly undemocratic implementation of the Adams House smoking ban. While claiming to represent the cause of health and protect non-smokers from "the tyranny of the majority," the staff position ignores the facts surrounding the ban. In her letter to Adams House residents, Allston Burr Senior Tutor Janet A. Viggiani admits "that the current smoking arrangements do not work; simple observation has also confirmed that they are often ignored. Furthermore, we are not in accord with either the letter or the spirit of the Harvard regulations...
...knew they were an outstanding three-point shooting team," Brown Coach Jean Marie Burr said. "I think they did a nice job sinking the three in pressure situations." Crimson, 101-86 (OT) in Providence HARVARD 43-34-24--101 Brown...
...result, the search process opened up theusually secretive mechanisms of Harvard governanceto students and faculty to an extent that waslargely unprecedented in recent history. Under theguidance of Senior Fellow Francis H. Burr '35, theCorporation sought the broadest input possible,mailing 203,000 letters asking for advice fromstudents, faculty, and alumni. When undergraduatesproved apathetic, individual Corporation memberssolicited their help by holding dinner meetings ineach of the Houses...
Hollywood is the sixth installment in the author's sprawling rewrite of U.S. history, and the formula established in such earlier books as Burr (1973) and 1876 (1976) has grown comfy to a fault. Some fictional characters mingle with real people, rich, famous or notorious. Unfolding history can be overheard in drawing-room gossip. In this instance, the invention of the movies provokes drollery about crude, gullible Americans. When the dialogue is witty, Hollywood entertains. But its subject is essentially passing time, and reading it often feels like an exercise in doing just that...
...good group of people from the Facilities Maintenance Department who came in on the Holiday weekend to clean up and make repairs [to Burr and Quincy]," Vautin said...