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...same time that the members of the Committee on University Training for Government Service will be President Conant, Dean Murdock, Dean Pound, Dean Donham, Dean Clifford, Henry V. Hubbard '97, Chairman of the Council of the School of City Planning, William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, Roger Bigelow Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, Harold H. Burbank, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy and Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology...
History 1 with Professor Merriman and English 28 with Professor Munn are the outstanding Freshman courses which demonstrate the truth of this. Although Mr. Merriman is an authority on Spain and Mr. Munn on English literature, they have developed excellent courses largely through their teaching ability...
Eliot, newest, biggest, "snootiest" of the Houses, draws the same type of youth as Dunster, but is cut up into social cliques. Three years ago its Master, Professor Roger Bigelow ("Frisky") Merriman, showed such zeal in entertaining socially desirable freshmen that other House Masters complained that he was violating a tacit taboo against proselyting. Result was that the Dean's Office took over the job of assigning freshmen to Houses, switched squads of private school men away from Eliot and Dunster. With the social balance somewhat evened, the Masters last year got back with restrictions, the privilege of picking...
...just before the Christmas holidays in the past two years, it has packed the long dining hall with audiences of over five hundred House members, professors, and guests. This year Shakespeare's Henry IV was presented on the evening of December 19, with the House Master, Professor Roger B. Merriman, in a leading role. At this occasion another Eliot House institution, the double quartet, rendered Elizabethan madrigals in true style...
This brief summary may, perhaps, give the reader some idea of the many activities and opportunities which Eliot House offers. But to pass over the hospitality of Professor and Mrs. Merriman would be to neglect one of the prime factors which make Eliot House life attractive and pleasant. Their sympathetic cooperation in all variety of House activity, their Senior dinners and teas go far towards creating the congenial atmosphere so essential to House success...