Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...single, dominant man, the "hero," absorbs Hook. He should not be confused with the simply eventful man such as Columbus. "Most historians would be ready to admit that, even if his ships had foundered, the new world would have been discovered . . . the whole period was one of enterprise and discovery. . . ." The hero, the event-making man, does not simply find "a fork in the historical road" -he helps create the fork. He is unique, irreplaceable. Event-making men: Caesar, Cromwell, Napoleon...
Other awards: Poet Robert Frost, for The Witness Tree; Esther Forbes, for her history, Paul Revere; Historian Samuel Eliot Morison, for his biography, Admiral of the Ocean Sea, a life of Columbus; Composer William Schuman, for Secular Cantata, No. 2, A Free Song...
Samuel Eliot Morison '08, and Robert Frost, noted New England poet, were Harvard's two winners of Pulitzer Prizes for 1942 as announced in New York yesterday. Morison was selected for his biography of Columbus while Frost was singled out for his volume of poetry entailed "A Witness Tree...
...unselfish services." A professor in history at the University since 1915, he is now engaged in writing the history of the Navy. He is a Senior Fellow and received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1912. Morison is one of the greatest authorities on early Colonial history and on Columbus, and has led expeditions of Harvard men over the four routes of America's founder in years past...
...room schools, walked or rode horseback two and a half miles each day from the farm, earned $45 a month plus $5 for doing his own janitor work. When he got to Ohio State University, he saved money by commuting from home-catching the 5 a.m. train to Columbus, the 6 o'clock back at night...