Word: merk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prove its case against the Times, the undergraduate newspaper called on a trio of experts on three aspects of the affair, historical, pyschological and educational. When asked what he would reply if someone asked him who was the President of the United States during the Civil War, Professor Frederick Merk of the Department of History specializing in the United States, responded, "Theodore Roosevelt." That, in two words, was the opinion of to Harvard historian, who went on to brand the answers as "sophmoric poppycock" with very little significance as evidence of the historical ignorance of American college freshmen...
Professor Frederick Merk, chairman of the Department of History specializing in the United States, thinks he would answer "Theodore Roosevelt" if confronted with that question on an examination...
Under these circumstances, and with a set of questions and expected answers that Professor Merk termed "sophomoric poppycock," the only possible outcome was that each student exercised his sense of humor to a greater or lesser degree, depending on the sense of humor...
...Merk Flunks...
Only 12 per cent could give two major contributions of Andrew Jackson, which is pretty bad. But Professor Merk would have been among the ignorant 88, since he emphasized Old Hickory's bringing the common man into politics through the party system. The Times didn...