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Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 10:--Samuel Eliot Morison, giving History 160c for the last time before his retirement, casts an old sailor's eye on Washington crossing the Delaware and decides that even a general shouldn't stand up in the boat. Morison also takes a close look in Harvard 2 at the heated convention in Philadelphia in 1787 and the subsequent battle over the ratification of the Constitution...
...much until Quincy's day. Then it became an orgy, highlighted by such scenes as "the College janitor, in vain protesting, yet not without hilarious collusion on his own part, (being) borne in wavering triumph on a door." The afternoon always began in Wadsworth House over what Professor Morison cryptically calls "cake and wine...
...significant, and extraordinary, that the appeal for a re-evaluation was not made to Conant but to a committee of eight respected professors including Ralph Barton Perry, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Samuel E. Morison, and Felix Frankfurter. These men wrote to Conant, suggesting what they wanted to study and making it pointedly clear that if they were not authorized to investigate, they would do so anyway...
...ROOSEVELT FAMILY OF SAGAMORE HILL, by Hermann Hagedorn, showed Teddy and his family at home leading a life so strenuous that it seems a wonder he ever had a chance to write THE LETTERS OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Vols. VII and VII, edited by Elting E. Morison, brought to an end the vast correspondence of the liveliest writer who ever held the presidency...
SICILY-SALERNO-ANZIO, by Samuel Eliot Morison, could hardly have been pleasant reading for the Allied commanders of World War II. This ninth volume of Morison's history of the naval side of the war (five more to come) criticized Montgomery for his handling of the Sicilian campaign, claimed the Italian surrender was fluffed, and flatly denounced the Anzio invasion as a "mistake...