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Last of these five alphabetically, but in no other way, is "Frisky" Merriman, perhaps the most traditional man still teaching at Harvard. Born in 1876 of a thoroughly Boston family, he graduated from Harvard in 1896, studied in Europe, married President. Eliot's neice, and has four children, the youngest a debutante. He became an instructor in History here in 1902, and a professor in 1918. From nothing he made History 1 into a top rank course, though he devotes himself more particularly to the Spanish Empire and Tudor England. A devout Anglophile, he reigns over his classes and masters...
...loud speaker system was rigged up in New Lecture Hall for the benefit of those visiting speakers who were as yet unaccustomed to sending forth their words of wisdom in such booming fashion, as, for example, is so successfully used by Professor Merriman, mentor of History 1. The speaker system will not be used this fall, official said...
Extravagant admirers of Britain's skittish Eric Linklater have not hesitated to compare him to Aristophanes. Author Linklater's picaresque, satirical novels (Juan in America, Magnus Merriman et al.) were full of bawdy humor and a blithe unconcern for English notions of propriety. But last week, when he published a new-fashioned novelist's version of Aristophanes' Lysistrata, critics concluded that the Scot was no match for the Greek on his own ground...
Carleton B. Swift, Jr. -- Miss Helen-Merriman, Eliot House
...Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Master of Eliot House, last night begged off from a more complete statement in view of the fact that he was in the midst of making up the History I exam, but did say that "he thought it was a crying shame that so many good men were excluded from the Houses...