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...much interested in the speech of Professor Morison at the annual dinner of the Harvard Club of New York, as reported in the February 28 issue of the Alumni Bulletin, anent the presentation by the Club to President Conant of the second oldest Harvard diploma in existence, awarded to Samuel Mather...
...have no wish to take issue with Professor Morison as to the beauty of the diplomas presented last year--they are adequate. But as one of those "sons of younger brothers" who were last June admitted to the company of learned men, I feel I have a very definite grievance as to that scrap of paper that I spent four years of toil to acquire. Let me quote from Professor Morison; "The signatures of this diploma (Mather's) are very interesting. First comes President Mather signed in his best Latin style, Crescentius Matherus". I look at the 1935 diploma before...
...meeting is a sequel to the one held last November when Samuel E. Morison '08, historian of the Tercentenary, spoke on "Harvard Past." The day chosen for this meeting, November 8, marked the 299th milestone of the founding of Harvard University and the 328th anniversary of the birth of John Harvard...
Clergymen, idiots, public servants, and drunkards, and one Indian teacher were all furnished to the community by Harvard in the seventeenth century, Samuel Eliot Morison '07, professor of History, revealed in his "Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century." This is a volume of the Tercentenary history just issued...
...friends I made at Harvard was the man who translated the Odyssey next to me on a narrow bench in Sever Hall," smiled the poet. "I bad a passion for Latin and Greek when I was in college. Professor Morison to the contrary, I was not driven from Harvard by the daily theme requirement, as I took no English courses which required daily themes; to prove to you that I was a worker, however, I may say that I took voluntary composition courses in Greek and Latin...