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...discover that he could take only half of History 60 in one year, the other half not being given. Any dissatisfaction he may have felt then may be more than recompensed now, however, for he has here the opportunity to benefit from the half-year periods which Professor Morison has spent away from the College. "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" is the product, not only of long and patient research in the records of Columbus and his contemporaries, but also of Professor Morison's own voyages along the routes of the Discoverer. And it is not exaggeration to say that...
Professor Morison points out in his preface that most preceding works on the Admiral could be entitled "Columbus to the Water's Edge." They have been written by "indoor geographers and armchair admirals" who knew nothing of the pleasures and hazards of ocean travel. It was for this reason that Professor Morison took time out from his College work to lead his "Harvard Columbus Expedition" under much the same conditions as those which Columbus himself experienced...
Speaking at a meeting whose purpose is to further Freshman acquaintance with Harvard history, Samuel Eliot Morison '08, professor of History, will talk in the Upper Common Room of the union tonight on the subject: "There centuries of Harvard; an informal picture of student life...
Professor Morison is noted for his book, "Three Centuries of Harvard," and for his spectacular duplication of the voyage of Columbus. The American Civilization Group is sponsoring the meeting tonight...
Said Samuel Eliot Morison, professor of History, "Nonsense--a very distorted view, Cambridge is, of course, a narrow-minded, provincial place, and we can't expect it to have the wide-world outlook a man receives at Hanover, New Hampshire...