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Shortly before the Mass. Pike and Mass. Ave intersect with Commonwealth Avenue, though, Boylston Street divides the pedestrian mall in two and, unmistakably, the statue of former Harvard Professor of History Samuel Eliot Morison '09 looms from the divide and the lush green behind...
...Fastidious youths who wanted plumbing had to room in private houses," writes historian Samuel Eliot Morison. There was no heat in any of the Yard buildings, and students bought their own coal and stored it in the basement of Grays Hall. An editorial in an 1895 Crimson vehemently protested the lack of bathing facilities and lamented that the only water to be found was in the basement of each building or from the pump outside of Hollis. Today, the pump rests as a bizarre monument in the Yard, but to the boys banished for lack of money, the pump...
...Morison felt that nothing could change the social strata so strongly felt at Harvard...
Harvard has not always been so aloof to the cause of the patriots. Like those of Massachusetts, Harvard's ties to England were stretched thin in the 1770s and by 1775 had snapped. Samuel Eliot Morison '08 recounts in his seminal 1936 work Three Centuries of Harvard how "on April 19... six scholars marched off with the Minutemen" and in a footnote proudly points to the fact that only 16 percent of Harvard graduates were on the rebels' list of Tory sympathizers. The campus itself--which according to President and member of the Class of 1790 Josiah Quincy's bicentennial...
...Hispaniola alone, war and slavery had killed 200,000 Arawaks, or 80 percent of the original population, by conservative estimates. Eventually, all of the natives were wiped out. Harvard historian Samuel Eliot Morison has written that the "cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide...