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...early birds with an hour to spare this morning, Merk's History 162, "The Western Movement in the U. S.," meets at 9 a.m. in Harvard 1. Reputed excellent...
Karl Sax, professor of Botany; Alexander Gerschenkron, associate professor of Economics; Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology; Arthur A. Mass, Instructor in Government; Frederick Merk, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science; George C. Homans, associate professor of Sociology; and Edward L. Ullman, assistant professor of Regional Planning...
...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...