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...Morison's statue upholds the popular Cambridge and Boston monument style. Like many other sites around the city, it depicts a man and his message. In Morison's case, the message speaks to his philosophy on life...
Shortly before the Mass Pike and Mass. Ave intersect Commonwealth Avenue, though, Boylston Street divides the pedestrian mall in two, and, unmistakably, the statue of former Harvard Professor of History Samuel Eliot Morison '09 looms from the divide and the lush green behind...
...statue looks imposing because it stands almost 15 feet tall. The sculpture shows Morison sitting atop a rocky coastal bluff, readying his right hand to gaze through his binoculars. At the same time, Morison keeps watch, with his left hand on his knapsack and three thick books at his side...
Below his booted feet, the sculpture depicts the usual New England seacoast litter: seashells, a fiddler crab or two, strands of kelp, and driftwood. What captures most passersby, however, is a quotation of Morison's engraved on a rock at his left side: "Dream dreams, then write them down--aye, but live them first...
...clear, late spring day, hundreds of people pass the Morison statue. A few breeze on by--usually there are bikers or roller bladers or skaters. Others stop for a while to notice and admire the sculpture. Still others use the statue's location as a benchmark or rendezvous point...