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...avant-garde art, which Busch characterized as “Picassoesque.” Yet in the November 28 edition of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Harvard alumni expressed disapproval of the artistic quality of the mural decorating Quincy dining hall. Gordon G. Sampson 1910 and Bernard A. Merrian 1909 agreed that the “graffito resembled the doodling of inmates in a mental hospital.” Despite its controversial décor, Quincy House led in popularity, with 29 percent of freshmen identifying it as their preferred place of residence, compared to the 19 percent who listed Adams...

Author: By Bita M. Assad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: First Quincy Residents Establish a New House Spirit | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...media frenzy surrounding the ongoing Smith investigation has dredged up other unsettling cases. One concerns Merrian Carver, a sometime investment banker from the Boston area who disappeared in 2004 during a weeklong Celebrity cruise to Alaska. Her cabin attendant has testified that when he reported his suspicion that she was no longer aboard three days into the voyage, he was told to keep putting fresh chocolates on her pillow. At the end of the trip, his supervisor placed Carver's belongings in storage without notifying her family or the authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime Rocks The Boats | 3/7/2006 | See Source »

Sampson and Bernard A. Merrian '09, agreed that the graffito resembled "the doodling of inmates in a mental hospital." According to Merrian, the mural "belongs in an abnormal psychology clinic...

Author: By Mary ELLEN Gale, | Title: Five Alumni Express Disapproval Of Graffito in Quincy Dining Room | 12/2/1959 | See Source »

...Touch of Reality. In Pittsburgh, James Merrian, bent on suicide, leaped from a bridge into the Ohio River, but swam quickly to shore, was hauled onto the bank by two bystanders and explained to police: "That water was too cold; I never knew it would be like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 15, 1952 | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

...Indians scored once in the first and twice in the second period with John Merrian accounting for the first two talties on passes from his wings. Ed Bildner, the Green's center forward, got the third goal on a breakaway down the center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Booters Lose to Indians, 3-0, at Hanover | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

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