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...College itself, date back at least to the time when Harvard students first took an interest in young women. (This latter date seems to have succeeded the College's founding by more than a century). Restrictions were a definite necessity by 1770, when, according to Samuel Eliot Morison, it was reported that "2 women of ill fame" had "spent the night in a certain college chamber...
...well aware, in hindsight, that U.S. code crackers found out Japan's plans in advance. Fuchida and his coauthor, another officer who survived the disaster, quote U.S. Naval Historian Samuel Eliot Morison's verdict that Midway was "a victory of intelligence." They have practically nothing good to say for their leaders' performance. They find the Imperial Navy's intelligence "ineffective." its plan "faulty," its technology backward (only the U.S. had radar at Midway), its security procedures far slacker than before the Pearl Harbor attack. In the first week of June 1942, they say, all Japanese suffered...
Because of this love, Morison has been able not only to record the past but also to relive it. A skilled yachtsman, he had to learn-as did the heroes of his classic The Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783-1860-the beauties and perils of the Atlantic coast. For his Pulitzer Prizewinning Admiral of the Ocean Sea he sailed 10,000 miles retracing the course of Columbus, and during World War II (he retired from the Navy as a rear admiral) he collected seven battle stars while also collecting first-hand material for his monumental history of naval operations...
...1940s ("Around the columns is thrown the screen like a loose-jointed necklace, the beads lunging to port or starboard and then snapping back . . . each destroyer nervous and questing, all eyes topside looking, ears below waterline listening, and radar antennae like cats' whiskers feeling for the enemy"), Sam Morison could write as one who was there...
...channels. "A whole generation has passed," he once complained, "without producing any really great works on American history . . . none with fire in the eye, none to make a young man want to fight for his country in war or live to make it a better country in peace." To Morison, history was pre-eminently "a story that moves . . . that sings to the heart while it informs the understanding." In the front of one of his books stands a quotation that he might have written himself: "Dream dreams, then write them -aye, but live them first...