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...EUROPEAN DISCOVERY OF AMERICA: THE NORTHERN VOYAGES by Samuel Eliot Morison. 712 pages. Oxford University Press...
Pusey's tenure will soon be a matter for the historians of Harvard to evaluate. Doubtless, he will rate a chapter in the sequel to Morison's Three Centuries of Harvard, whenever that is written. Already, he is starting to be memorialized-the Harvard News Office has issued a comprehensive outline of the Pusey presidency. The Pusey Years at Harvard, in handy pamphlet form for reference use by journalists and alumni...
...country's foremost publishing houses; of a heart attack; in Boston. Thornhill liked to regard himself as simply a salesman, but he was much more. His good taste, enthusiasm for literature and unfailing respect for his writers attracted many eminent authors, including Samuel Eliot Morison, John P. Marquand, Katherine Anne Porter, Ogden Nash, J. D. Salinger and Peter De Vries. In 1962, after almost 50 years with the company, Thornhill turned the presidency over to his son, Arthur H. Jr., but retained the chairmanship, in which he remained active until his death...
...idea of education nor, for that matter, to the idea of Harvard. They did not even exist until the twentieth century. Departmental Honors programs were begun in 1908, and only in 1910 were concentration and distribution requirements inaugurated for everyone-a change which, according to Samuel Eliot Morison, was considered revolutionary. Before that, all one needed for graduation was to pass a certain number of courses, a mixture of free electives and a few prescribed courses. Indeed, a Faculty Report showed that 55 per cent of the class of 1898, which had almost no prescribed courses, elected little or nothing...
...that this interpretation is correct, although no one know for sure because no legal scholars have ever had any reason to consider the problem. A source in the office of the Counsel to the Massachusetts Senate has said that it seems probable the Governing Boards' approval is required. And Morison, in his Development of Harvard University, 1868-1929, agrees that this principle may now be considered a settled point in American constitutional...