Word: historian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book's lead article, written with the aid and advice of Samuel Eliot Morison, Professor of History and Harvard's Historian, tells the story of the "Life of the Yard" through 300 years, particularly as Freshmen have lived...
Samuel Eliot Morison, professor of history and official historian of the Tercentenary, addressed the Overseers after the luncheon in Dunster House on "Dunster's place in Harvard History...
...Harvey Williams Gushing was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of his great good friend, the late Sir William Osier. The award saluted a rarity, an able doctor who was also an able literary craftsman. The salute also confirmed Dr. Cushing's reputation as a thoroughgoing medical historian...
...went with Dr. Gushing to Yale when in 1932 he became too old for Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. From his diaries he carefully culled enough memories to make a popular volume which he called From a Surgeon's Journal and published last week.- However useful historians may eventually find Dr. Cushing's complete diaries, they will find From a Surgeon's Journal poor history, for it reveals too little about that medically significant author's own activities. One unconnected series of jottings, however, is interesting to historian, layman and doctor. That...
...Thomas Jefferson's tombstone (which, like nearly everything else in his philosophically regulated life, he designed himself) he had chiseled the three achievements he wished his countrymen to remember him for; the Declaration of Independence, the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, the founding of the University of Virginia. Historian Adams thinks Jefferson was too modest. Having listed such other claims to fame as his being Governor of Virginia, Minister to France, Secretary of State, twice President of the U. S., he calls Jefferson "the greatest Liberal America has produced and the most intensely 'American...