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...early New England, the narrowing strictures of puritanism were constantly endangering the College. The election of Samuel Webber to the presidency in 1806 marked the first in a long line of Unitarian presidents. Samuel Eliot Morison writes, "Orthodox Calvinists, of the true puritan tradition now became open enemies to Harvard.... Unitarianism of the Boston stamp was not a fixed dogma but a point of view that was receptive, searching, inquiring, and yet devout; a halfway house to the rationalistic and scientific point of view...
Harvard Historian Samuel Eliot Morison has taken a short leave of his massive history of the U.S. Navy in World War II to assemble a collection of his historical essays, By Land and by Sea (Knopf). Written with his usual clarity and common sense, they range in subject from the clipper ships of Massachusetts to history as a literary art, a piece that should be required reading for all academic historians...
When Sir John Morison, 60, a canny Scottish accountant, took over Britain's steel denationalization program four weeks ago, he made it clear that he intended to drive a Scottish bargain. Said he: "Some people seem to think we're going to give the things away . . . We're after a good price, and we're going to get it." In his first sale last week, Bargainer Morison lived up to his word. In a $3,000,000 deal, he sold two-thirds of the stock of Templeborough Rolling Mills to British Ropes, Ltd. and William Cooke...
...Firth of Clyde, he "drifted into accountancy," probably because his father was in it. Sir William McLintock, head of Britain's famous Thomson, McLintock firm, soon drafted the "drifter" as his protégé, moved him rapidly up to a partner. During World War II, Morison ran the Ministry of Supply's financial affairs and served on the vital War Damage Commission, which decided how much should be paid to thousands of blitzed British property owners. He was knighted for his work...
...Guinea and the Marianas, by Samuel Eliot Morison. The definitive U.S. naval history of World War II reaches Volume VIII, the decisive summer of 1944, and the campaigns which brought the Pacific War to the doorstep of Japan (TIME, June...