Word: merk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been 14 years since The Harvard Guide to American History, first assembled in 1896, was revised by Handlin, Arthur Schlesinger, Samuel Eliot Morison, Frederick Merk, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Paul H. Buck. In what was the kitchen of the house the Warren Center now lives in, Richard K. Showman, formerly in charge of educational exhibits at Sturbridge Village, is working full-time to bring the bibliography up to date, under the general supervision of Frank Freidel...
Others include: Simon S. Kuznets, Kenneth S. Lynn '45, Bernard Malamud, Juan Marichal, Frederick Merk, Barrington Moore Jr., Samuel Eliot Morison '08, Daniel P. Moynihan, Henry A. Murray '15, William W. Nash Jr. '50, David E. Owen, Alwin M. Pappenheimer Jr.'29, Thomas F. Pettigrew, Edward M. Purcell, William V. O. Quine, Eduard F. Sekler, Seymour Slive, F. Skiddy von Stade Jr. '38, Michael L. Walzer, and Robert L. Wolff...
...Hamilton Gibb was aquired from Britain in 1955 with only the promise of a University Professorship and Harvard's fervent hope for the active center of Middle Eastern Studies it now has. Schlesinger (along with Frederic Merk) succeeded Fredrick Jackson Turner a generation ago as the dominant influence on American social history
...addition, George Wald's two-year-old Nat Sci 5, The Nature of Living Things, has been termed "Baby Bio" by its devotees. One of the best known nicknames was "Wagon Wheels" for Frederick Merk's now-defunct course on the History of the Westward Movement. Outsiders sometimes called it "Cowboys and Indians...
Besides Copeland, a number of well-remembered professors were members of the Harvard Faculty during the three years Cabot spent as an undergraduate. George Pierce Baker, George Lyman Kittredge, and Bliss Perry taught English Literature; Frederick Merk, Samuel Eliot Morison, and Frederick Jackson Turner interpreted History; Ralph Barton Perry taught philosophy; James Bryant Conant was then an assistant professor of Chemistry, and Irving Babbitt instructed students in the subtleties of French Literature. The last subject caught the interest of Cabot, who had spent three years in French schools before entering Middle-sex and spoke French as fluently as English...