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...Committee on Seals, Arms, and Diplomas has just been appointed by President Conant, it was learned yesterday. In recognition of his work on the subject for the Tercentennial celebration in 1936, Samuel E. Morison '08, professor of History, has been selected for chairman. The other two members of the committee are Kenneth B. Murdock '16, dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Charles A. Coolidge '81, architect of the new Houses...
Professor Morison will forward discussion on the basis of his researches, which, he hopes, will result in the making of a new seal. He will also urge that a more careful distinction be made between the Seal, which, he claims, should be used only as an official stamp on College documents, and the Arms which, alone, are appropriate for decoration...
...actual results of Professor Morison's researches on the College Seals have been published in an article for the September Graduates Magazine which will go on sale either today or tomorrow. He has established, for the first time, the approximate dates at which seals of various designs were officially used. The motto, "Veritas," he discovered, was not actually used until 1885 except for a brief period under Josiah Quincy although it was officially recommended at an overseers' meeting in 1643. At a meeting of the Harvard Club in New York in 1878 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1816, presented a sonnet ridiculing...
...this pretentious list Professor Morison proposes to add another which will combine all the good points of the existing ones and eliminate the bad. New Arms designed according to correct heraldic form are already under consideration...
...interests of historical accuracy, it is perhaps well that Professor Samuel Eliot Morison should begin investigating the authenticity of Harvard's multitudinous insignia. Posterity will no doubt delight in learning that the University letterhead was filched from a Newtowne vintner, or that the proud heraldry of the Weatmorly windows is merely the unacknowledged issue of a brandy label...