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Roger Bigelow Merriman...
Aside from the president of the University, there is no figure familiar to more admiring Freshmen than Professor Merriman. Walking up and down the platform or rocking back and forth on his desk with a seven-foot pointer under his knee, the colorful lecturer of History 1, seems for one hour every Wednesday and Friday to be making Harvard history himself...
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...
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