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History boasts some of the finest lecturers in the College. Morison is the closest thing the department has to a romantic historian. Nobody in History is capable of writing historical fiction of the equivocal past but the men in the department don't reduce history to a recital of dates and kings enlivened occasionally by the adventures of the kings' mistresses...
...Morison, Merk, and Schlesinger handle American history with authority. The American history question on the departmental exam can be answered after taking Merk's History 61a, one of the most rewarding half-courses in the department. Blake's course on the Byzantine Empire of Bruck's on Roman Law is the answer to the ancient or medieval question on the exam...
Samuel Eliot Morison '07, professor of American History, who served as Historian of United States Naval Operations in World War II, will present his annual public lecture on the Battle of Midway at 12 noon today at the Institute of Geographical Exploration...
...Morison was appointed to the job of historian for the navy by President Roosevelt, and at present is writing a 12-volume "History of U.S. Naval Operations." He served at the North African invasion and other actions, and is the author of many historical works, both on Harvard and the United and the United States...
Hanya Holm's dances are smart, brisk, Broadwayish-no Art whatever and a vast amount of skill; and Dancer Harold Lang and Singer Lisa Kirk take care of the subplot in style. In the leading roles, Hollywood's Patricia Morison proves to be right at home on Broadway, and Alfred Drake stands forth as the best all-round musicomedy hero in show business...