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Samuel E. Morison '08, professor of History and Harvard's official historian, returns from Washington today after seeing the fruition of a plan on which he and President Roosevelt '04 collaborated for several weeks...
According to the figures of Samuel Eliot Morison, Harvard historian, the Class of 1942 will be the 297th to graduate. He figures it thus: The first graduating class was the Class of 1642. There were no classes of 1644, 1648, 1672, 1682, and 1688; but there were two in 1653. Consequently there were 55 classes in the 17th century. Add 200 for the 18th and 19th centuries and 41 for the present century which will graduate ahead of 1942. The Freshmen now entering are Harvard's 297th Class...
Harvard will remember the 300th anniversary of the death of its name-sake today at noon, when President Conant, Jerome D. Green '96, Secretary to the Corporation, and Samuel Eliot Morison '08, official historian of the University, visit the old Charleston burying ground and lay a wreath on the monument of John Harvard...
...kind of African mystery to it, as thought if analyzed, it might explode in one's face and release snakes and tigers. Really it is the tool of description for those who do not understand a social condition easily explained by Henry Adams, the Porcellian Club, or Samuel Eliot Morison's history. It is applied to the student so absorbed in his bio-chemistry that he cannot look at anyone and to the Freshmen too frightened for words, as well as to the Andover man who finds himself a cozy corner in Mt. Auburn Street and sleeps four years...
...ordinarily required for admittance into advanced American history courses. Unless a thorough course has been taken in school, it is necessary for those intending to enter the American field. The numerous hour exams make it elementary, but the reading is comprehensive and Buck's lectures good. With Professor Morison's personality History 60 is a delight for the American specialist; last year Nettels was very good. History 62a gives an economic approach to America. The most important course to the American concentrator is 63; although his humor is pleasant. Professor Schlesinger's lectures are on the whole dull. Most...