Word: merrimanly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tremendous increase this year in the number of students taking History 1, the introductory course in European History given by Roger B. Merriman, Gurney Professor of History, was revealed yesterday at University Hall...
Second: Does any House sptcialize prepondrantly in any one field? No. The Central Committee does not wish this to come about. However, it seems inevitable, and desirable, that some variations should arise. Eliot House, for example, under Professor Merriman, may pride itself on History and Literature, while Winthrop House, under Professor Ferry, has formed science clubs, and may at times attract more concentrators in Biochemical Sciences than other units. It is also not undesirable that Dunster House should be strong in Economics and in History and Literature, and should possess the best Fine Arts library; or that Leverett House, perhaps...
Professor Merriman an expert in Spanish history, is the author of a three-volume "Rise of the Spanish Empire." Freshmen annually are impressed by his two lectures on the rise and fall of the power of the Iberians...
Well over six feet in height and built to be a wrestler. Professor Merriman lectures in a deep booming voice which, at crucial moments, rises to a preposterously high pitch. The universal nickname, "Frisky", which ranks with "Copey" and "Kitty" among Harvard's factious sobriquets, has clung to him since his college days, did not spring, as so many think, from his animated platform manner. Anathema to him are hats, newspapers, or sleeping students in the New Lecture Hall just before he begins his lecture. He is a strong Anglophile, swallows his ever present pipe half way down his threat...
Besides lecturing in History 1, Professor Merriman is Master of Eliot House, which he rules like one of the benevolent feudal barons of whom he lectures as memorably. Never did he seem more in his element than in a recent play of the Eliot House Elizabethan Club, marching through Eliot's enormous dining hall as King Henry...