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...program which will be under the guidance of John Merriman Gaus, recently appointed Professor of Regional Planning in the School of Design, is deseribed in detail in the last issue of the Alumni Bulletin...
...ever a man has made a House into a respected institution, with a gentlemanly tradition of good living behind it, it is Professor Merriman. He has been and he is Eliot House personified. Without him, the place will not seem quite the same...
...fortunate that there is as good a choice to succeed him as Professor Finley, a distinguished scholar who is well liked by the staff of tutors as well as by the undergraduates and who is completely capable of taking over where Professor Merriman leaves off. But it will be many years before he can fill his predecessor's shoes as the star of the House Christmas play or as the chief rooter for the Elephant football team and crew...
...years Professor Merriman has made of the dry bones of the House Plan a living, vital creation. What he has given Eliot House is something that will remain after him as a part of the elusive but ever-present tradition that is Harvard...
However, even the anglophilism is open to doubt. For instance, only six of the 94 courses or half-courses offered by the History Department deal directly with England. Of the teachers of these courses one, Professor Merriman, has written a widely known historical work, but it is on Spain, not England. The most distinguished books by Harvard historians of the last decade have been on such subjects as Greece, Bismarck, World War causes, imperialism, revolutions, maritime history of New England, and the Reconstruction in the South. These books have about as much anglophile tinge as Senator Wheeler...