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...Morison's statue upholds the popular Cambridge and Boston monument style. Like many other sites around the area, it depicts a man and his message. In Morison's case, the message speaks to his philosophy on life...
...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 they 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...
...Morison graduated from the College and except for a brief period in the early 1910s when he pursued private study, he spent his entire life either as a student or as a professor of history at Harvard. For almost 60 years Morison wrote novels and journal pieces. Arguably, his most famous work is his 1935 History of the Founding of the College, where he traces the scholarly antecedents of Harvard in both the British and French models...