Word: burr
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...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...
Water from burst pipes flooded areas of Burr Hall, Pound Hall and Quincy House last week while students were away for winter break. University employees said they discovered the floods upon returning to work after Christmas...
Although workers in Pound Hall were able to resume work the day after the flood, the History and Literature Department, housed in Burr Hall, was not so lucky. The department has been closed since the flood, but will re-open today...
...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...