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Samuel Eliot Morison '08, professor of History, was presented with the first medal in 1937. In the previous year he had written his definitive "Three Centuries of Harvard." Van Wyck Brooks '08, whose best-selling "The Flowering of New England" won the Pulitzer Prize, was awarded the second medal...
Professor Morison's recent decision to permit course credit to be given in English A and A-1 for plays written in the Workshop competition which starts tonight, however, is a long step away from the traditional mustiness. Without becoming an intellectual service station at which activities are more important than curriculum, Harvard's English Department can well put less emphasis on someone's footnotes to someone's footnotes and more emphasis on preparing and encouraging Harvard men to do creative writing of their...
Last Tuesday Robert Judell '42, was preparing for an exam in History 60a (American Colonial History), which is taught by Samuel Eliot Morison '08, professor of History. Recalling Professor Morison's interest in the West Indies where he recently duplicated Columbus' voyages. Judell shrewdly guessed that there might be a map question on the West Indies...
...another, and equally important, angle to the question, and one which people like Dr. Beard tend to forget: the political. The question boils down to, Would France have fought at all if Pierre Laval were premier? and the answer is obviously, No. Or again, Would Churchill, Bevin and Morison be in power in England now if England had declined to fight? Again, No. Who would have been? The same group that Laval represented in France; the determined enemies of every social reform; the gang which will always benefit by appeasement. In regard to the American situation, then, just who will...
Engaged. Elizabeth Gray Morison, dark, pretty, seafaring daughter of HaVard's Sailor-Historian Samuel Eliot Morison (Second Voyage of Columbus); and Edward D. W. Spingarn, Trinity College economics instructor and son of the late great Critic-Libertarian Joel Elias Spingarn; in Boston...