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Copley-Plaza--Intercollegiate Ball--10.30 to 3 o'clock. James James Morison Weatherbee George Dupree took great care of his partner--until they arrived here. If you can't find the girl friend, have a policeman...
Prof. Samuel Eliot Morison, of Harvard's history department has been writing perspective impressions of Harvard for the Harvard Alumni Bulletin after three years (1922-25) as Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. An impression recently published beneath the terse statement which U. S. graduates and undergraduates instantly discerned a deep vein of truth, was to the effect that at Oxford college studies are called "reading" while in the U. S. reading is called "work." "If any material device could help matters it would be the abolition of roommates. At Oxford, only Americans and foreigners...
...Council's Committee on Education to divide Harvard into several small collegiate units will, I believe, appeal strongly to most men who, like myself, have enjoyed, as undergraduates, the hospitality of an Oxford or Cambridge college. Not that those admirable institutions can be reproduced here and now. As Professor Morison points out, we could not reproduce them if we would. But certainly there is a place in our educational world for a university which will give us the advantages of the English colleges...
...following article by Professor S. E. Morison '08 on the Student Council Committee's suggestion that Harvard be sub-divided into a number of smaller colleges appears in the current number of the Alumni Bulletin. Professor Morison returned last fall from Oxford where he had been for three and a half years as an exchange professor in history. In the article printed in part below he attacks the idea of dividing Harvard into smaller colleges on the Oxford plan, showing from his first hand knowledge of the two institutions how this step would be impractical and undesirable...
...library. Even the aborigines, in the short-lived "Indian Colledge," ate in the commons, which perhaps explains why all but one died or ran away before graduation. That and all the other "colleges" were in law and fact, simply buildings of Harvard College. Very truly yours, S. E. Morison...