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When Samuel Eliot Morison '08, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, retires this June, an unusual and generally unrecognized competition will move into a new phase. Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, will move to the head of the faculty competition for titles in Widener. An unofficial survey of Widener's card catalog disclosed yesterday that Morison has a commanding lead. His 70 different books and pamphlets, of which there are 155 separate copies in Widener, far outstrip all competitors. Friedrich has 41 titles, while third place goes to Symeur E. Harris '20, professor of Government, about ten behind Friedrich...
...Morison's vast writings fall mainly into four categories. As Harvard Hestorian, a post in which he will continue after he retires from teaching, he wrote extensively on Harvard and its history for the Tercentennial celebration. Two of his other largest fields have been the history of Massachusetts and studies of Columbia and his voyages...
...Morison is now working on his voluminous "History of U.S.Naval Operations in World War H." As an active naval officer, who race to Bear Admiral, Morison gained first hand experience from this work, of which nine volumes have been published...
...Morison now teaches History 160 on American colonial history and History 260, a seminar on American history...
...historian, Morison in 1953 offered this advise to future historians: "Bring all your knowledge of life to bear on everything you write. Never let yourself bog down in pedantry and detail. Bring History, the most humane and noble form of letters, back to the proud position she once held...