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Professor Samuel Eliot Morison, in his article on Oxford which was reprinted in yesterday's CRIMSON from the London Spectator, pointed out what seems to be the most striking difference between English and American universities. Of English universities Professor Morison said: "They are not expected to be all things to all men; nor is admission to their colleges demanded as a right." The reverse of this statement is true of American universities...
...University yesterday took its first step toward the preparation for the tricentennial celebration of its foundation, to be held ten years hence, when it announced the appointment of Professor Samuel Eliot Morison '08 as historian for the occasion...
Professor Morison has been a member of the History Department of the University since 1915. During the World War he served as an infantry private in the United States Army. From 1922 until 1925 he was Harold Vyvvan Harmsworth Professor of American History at the University of Oxford...
Professor Morison has been a close student of both American and European politics and history. He was attached to the Russian division of the American Peace Commission at Paris in 1919, and was later the American delegate on that commission. He is the author of several well-known historical and biographical works on the Balkans, Massachusetts, and the American Revolution. Among these are, "The Life of Harrison Gray Otis," "History of the Constitution of Massachusetts". "The Eastern Baltie in New Europe", "Maritime History of Massachusetts", "Prologue to American History," and "Sources and Documents on the American Revolution...
...French school is represented by Fragonard, Meryon, Berthe Morison, Renoir Legros, lithographs by Ingres and Dannier, and potraits by Nanteuil. There is a characteristic etching by Goya, the Spaniard, and among the Italians there is a specimen of Canaletto...