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...here's old Professor Morison. We must be going to have a battle." This is the way Commander Samuel Eliot Morison '08, USNR, was greeted once as he boarded a Navy cruiser. In his position as historian of naval operations of the second world war, Comdr. Morison has seen the dangerous center of nearly every major sea battle, from Casablanca to the Gilbert Islands, from Tarawa to Okinawa...
...letter to the SERVICE NEWS, Comdr. Morison, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, revealed that he saw the landing on Okinawa from the highest point of the U.S.S. Tennessee: he described the action as a "superb naval spectacle full of movement, life and color." The Kamikaze boys "seemed to have a special spite" against the Tennossee, and "one got through, missed me on the bridge by a few feet and crashed amidships, killing and wounding a number of fine young...
...last of five resignations takes place tomorrow when Robert S. Morison '30 resigns as assistant professor of Anatomy. Morison earned his M.D. here in 1935. Other resignations since July 31 have included those of Gordon M. Moe as associate in Pharmacology, Hiram H. Merrit as associate professor of Neurology, John T. Williams as assistant professor of Gynecology, and Anthony O. Dahl as faculty instructor in Biology and tutor in the Department of Biology...
...commander in the U. S. Naval Reserve, Samuel Eliot Morison '08, on leave of absence from his post as Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, wrote the following history of Harvard Commencements in the 30's. He is now compiling a history of the operations of the U. S. Navy in World...
Then a lieutenant commander, Morison arrived in England in July, 1941, to gather material for historical record of the naval operations of this war. Since then he reportedly witnessed the action at Caeablanca and visited Tarawa; Morison dirides his time between active duty and desk work in Washington...