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...will ever forget the voyage. The waters could be rough and the weather stormy, but no one could ever say that the trip had been dull. Last week, as he got set to retire, Morison was more than merely a great historian. He was also, in the tradition of Parkman and Prescott, the eloquent champion of history as the art of adventure...
...Life and Letters of Harrison Gray Otis, partly from the boxes of letters stored in the family wine cellar. But aside from the influence of his teachers and ancestors, there was also his love for the sea. It was almost inevitable, says one of his col leagues, that as "Parkman was the historian of the wilderness, so Morison should become the historian...
...Governor Stoughton seemed to resent this affront. Although his spirit remained quite for some years, it had an insidious effect on the occupants of the new hall. The two historians Francis Parkman and William Hickling Prescott both later went blind, and Richard Henry Dana had to go off to sea to recover his eyesight. Even the burbling Oliver Wendell Holmes was daunted during his year of residence, managing to mutter only, "I am as cross as a wild-cat sometimes." Stoughton remained gloomy for years, inwardly boiling at the more light-hearted Hollis, where the Hasty Pudding Club...
Walter B. Carnochan '53 and Leroy S. Rouner '53 will replace Francis Parkman, Jr. '44 and Edward T. Wilcox, who have served as Assistant Deans of Freshmen for the past two years...
Before he worked under Von Stade, Wilcox was a teaching fellow in Humanities. He will now become an Assistant to William G. Perry, Jr., Director of the Bureau of Study Counsel. Parkman also was connected with the University before his term as Assistant Dean. In 1951-52 he served on the Committee on Scholarships. He is leaving to become the headmaster of Cate School, Santa Barbara, California...