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...Eliot and the other graduate students who were on the crew team “agreed that on account of the large number of entries they must have some distinguishing mark other than the underclothes in which they customarily rowed,” according to historian Samuel E. Morison, Class of 1908, in Three Centuries of Harvard. Hence, Eliot’s hasty run to buy the kerchiefs, which the athletes wore “to keep sweat out of their eyes when participating in sporting events,” according to Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes...
...crimson-colored volumes of Harvard history that collect dust on the shelves of the Widener reference room, one can barely find mention of the thousands of African-Americans who received Harvard degrees. For example, the index to Three Centuries of Harvard, the famous history written by Samuel Eliot Morison, Class of 1908, for the tercentenary celebration in 1936, does not even mention Du Bois! Or consider the case half a dozen years ago of a Harvard Crimson reporter who wrote a feature article in which he praised University President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, for democratizing Harvard housing...
...Professor Samuel Eliot Morison, who had replicated the voyage of Columbus, occasionally walked the length of the Widener Reading Room in leather-heeled riding boots...
...Graves points out, architects from Michelangelo to Frank Lloyd Wright have designed candlesticks as well as cathedrals. Never before, though, has there been such competition to define consumers' lifestyles. "There's a feeling out there that the aesthetic should be part of your life," says Tupperware head designer Morison Cousins...
...Both Morison and the passerby stay dry, but the image gained reminds one of the sea and of the spring tides and of the touch of local history...