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...Lilley's references to Professor Merriman's height and voice are not only insulting; they are examples of loose thinking. Hot water in Adams House has nothing to do with hot water in Eliot House, and neither of them have anything to do with Professor Merriman. I happen to have heard Mr. Lilley's voice myself, and recall, from the experience, nothing which would justify him in criticizing Mr. Merriman's voice. Mr. Lilley is obviously prejudiced. I assume that his application for admission to Eliot House was once rejected...
...voice in the Plympton Street office of the Harvard CRIMSON, and the attendant, who had just collected a year's subscription from the voice, promptly turned over a copy of the little pamphlet which is so much in demand these hectic days around Harvard Square to Roger Bigelow Merriman, B.Litt, Ph. D., D.Litt., LL.D., Gurney Professor of history and political science and master of Eliot House...
...steps, Professor Merriman turned the pages of the frank guide to Freshmen courses, which the CRIMSON issued in pamphlet form this fall for the first time, and quivers of amusement began to gather around his inevitable pipe as he scanned the expressed criticisms of so many sacred institutions of the Harvard curriculum...
...emphatic for quotation as he read some of the outspoken quips, and the group which had gathered around to watch the great man's reaction quivered with anticipation as he turned the page to "History 1," the course which all recent graduates associate so vividly with Professor Merriman...
...after giving due credit to Mr. Cram, who is Professor Merriman's assistant in History 1, for his work in helping organize the course, the latest subscriber to the Confidential Guide to Freshman Courses," went striding up Plympton street still chuckling over this great joke on him. Transcript...