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Since the retirement of Professor Merk in 1957, Harvard has been without a course in the history of the Westward Movement. Professor Merk's course on the subject was one of the more popular in the University despite the difficulty of the exams and the T, Th, S, 9 A.M. meeting...
Despite the enthusiasm shown for Merk's course, the History Department has made no apparent effort to reinstitute a course in Western history. This failing cannot be attributed to a lack of qualified teachers in this country; while it might be impossible to find a man as knowledgeable as Professor Merk, there are certainly men competent to teach the subject...
...coordinates, the students proceed as the ancients did to mapping the earth, and they learn how a spherical surface is translated onto a flat piece of oak tag. Large wall maps are one tangible result of this project, maps accurate to a degree that would please even Frederick Merk...
Harvard University's birdlike Frederick Merk, 69, grand chronicler of the American frontier. The grandson of an immigrant German cooper, Merk graduated from the University of Wisconsin, eventually moved to Harvard. There, in the quietest of voices and with the gentlest of manners, he gave the course known to the catalogue as History 162 but to the campus as "Wagon Wheels," which annually reopened the frontier not only to thousands of Harvard students but also to Nieman Fellowship journalists such as A. B. Guthrie, who was inspired by Merk's sweeping narratives to write...
...teacher he has had a vast personal influence on many men who have studied with him, and nearly every book dealing with the West lists Merk among the acknowledgements...