Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Charles Burton Gulick '90 will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel this morning at 8.45 o'clock...
...present those of them who are administering to the needs of Harvard students are living in a small house at 14 Oxford street, rented from the University. At their head is the Rev. Granville M. Williams, although the work is under the general supervision of the Rev. Spence Burton '04, father superior of the Boston mission...
...Arbor, Mich, restless with the knowledge that something is agley in undergraduatedom, President Marion LeRoy Burton of Michigan University called to him Robert C. Angell of the Sociology Department. He sent Dr. Angell on a quest. Last week Dr. Angell returned, after talking with many another uneasy educator, and many young men and women, earnest no end and either utterly complacent or badly worried over themselves. Dr. Angell wrote a report: "College is no longer a place for those who wish to become cultured. It is a social prac- tice ground. Men and women come here to make friends...
...December American Mercury, the unrest became drastic. Prof. Richard Burton, of the University of Min- nesota, took Why Go To College for a text and preached the exclusion from seats of learning, not only of the "cake eater" (see above), but also of that "monument of misapplied energy" and "machinelike assiduity," the dig, grind, poler, swatter, the "young man or woman of mediocre or worse calibre who lacks initiative, personality, creative energy. . . ." Prof. Burton, a man evidently conversant with culture in many forms, was scornful of that form which is "a sort of contagion; you get it by being exposed...
...following is the list of those elected to the acting department: Greeley Stevenson Curtis '28 of Cambridge, Donald Fay Dunne '28 of Somerville, William Burton Wilson '26 of Portland, Maine, Ralph Nye '27 of Ogden, Utah, Baird Luther Dickson '27 of Lakewood, Ohio; to the property department: Donald Fay Robinson '26 of Wilmington, Delaware...