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Frederick Merk, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, will continue to give History 61a, The Growth of the American Nation...
Frederick Merk, whose well-organized History 61a is one of the best in that Department, is giving his expansive middle group course for the last time this year. the course, History 162, on the Westward Movement, has a reading list dotted with the journals of historical societies throughout the Mid-West as well as the standard writings on our territorial growth. Merk has an excellent delivery. Harvard Hall...
There is still a great galaxy left. Most find History 61a and b, The Growth of the American Nation and the Making of Modern America, worthwhile even if cut and dry. Merk is well-organized and Bender always violently anti-South for his three Civil War lectures in the first half. Schlesinger worships New Dealism and buck good Republicanism in the second part...
...Merk really shines in Westward Movement (162) despite his demand for minute detail on exams, and Schlesinger, Jr. makes his lectures both entertaining and controversial in American Intellectual History...
This went on, Merk explains, until the otter was so tired, he could barely dive, when all the Indians shot arrows at him. The fur pelt went to the man whose arrow lodged closest to the otter...