Edwin S. Burdell

Edwin Sharp Burdell (February 2, 1898 – August 30, 1978) was the director (1938-1951) and president (1951-1960) of the Cooper Union for 22 years and the first dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Burdell left Cooper Union in 1960 to take up an appointment as the president of Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. He was subsequently resident consultant of the Cranbrook Institutes in the early 1960s, where his responsibility was to help coordinate the activities of the six Cranbrook Institutions.

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• Burdell, Edwin Sharpe (1933). . Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University. the young draftsman... slumped over on the table in a faint.... this pale but courageous youth replied, 'Well, you see we aren't the kind that takes charity or relief and this morning there just wasn't enough food to go around... just enough for the kids and I figured I could get by without any today, but I guess the joy of getting back to the old drafting board was a bit too much, but I'll be O.K.'
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