Word: merk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
They tend to concentrate on a few courses: Merk's History 162--the Westward Movement in the U. S.--has attracted probably the largest number. Merk, whose course consistently wins "most important single item" votes from Niemans, sees their value to the University in a broader sense: "Their contribution to Harvard is their contact with undergraduates, who meet imaginative and live people doing reporting...
...other on American fiction since 1890. Both are specialized in the extreme and neither is concerned with the central focus of American literature, the middle span of the nineteenth century. And to pile Ossa on Pelion, the course on American fiction since 1890 conflicts in examination group with professor Merk's History of the Westward Movement--by all odds the outstanding American history course offered in the College...
...example of the colorful continuity which Professor Merk maintains in his approach to history is his present attitude toward land speculators, the omnipresent villains of almost every frontier area he examines. "Speculators even today are of tremendous importance in the national economy," he says. Especially in times of high land values, in either city or country, the speculator is inevitably on hand, and helps to develop both slum districts and dust-bowls. Matter of fact, the Professor is worried right now about what speculation is doing in the way of a possible new dust-bowl out Colorado way; a combination...
After five years of administrative worries as Head of the Department of History, Professor Merk retired last summer from bustling Holyoke House to a Widener study; there he spends most of his day, doing the research which he maintains any teacher must continually do to keep himself fresh and alive. But it is as a lecturer that Harvard men know him. As Department head, Professor Merk says he early found that "when a man teaches something he likes, he teaches it better." The little dynamo with the thrilling voice is himself a working model that proves the statement...