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...student with a “wal-nut tree cudgel” so thoroughly that, in a time when a little physical discipline was common, he was sent to court for assault, according to the book “Three Centuries of Harvard” by Samuel E. Morison. Eaton was also accused of embezzlement. The “rogue,” as Gomes calls him, was dismissed, and Harvard risked closing its doors. It would take the able leadership of Henry Dunster to keep them open...
...Morison credits Leverett with having “founded the liberal tradition of Harvard University,” as recently noted in The Harvard Gazette. Leverett may have proposed a liberal education, but he remained true to his religious roots: his many biblical expositions illustrate a man who dwelt on profundity. Titles include “Africa always offers something new” and “Discussion of whether China was under the great flood,” among others...
According to Morison, Kirkland was the only Harvard president who was ever loved. As Oliver Wendell Holmes put it, his “‘shining morning face’ was round as a baby’s,” and he spoke “with smiles for accents and dimples for punctuation...
...lawyer, and more importantly, Mayor of Boston, famous for clearing out the brothels on Beacon Hill and renewing the city’s commercial center with what we now know as Quincy Market. Quincy succeeded the beloved but increasingly inept John Thornton Kirkland, Class of 1789, and Samuel Eliot Morison, Class of 1908, notes of the transition that “Tiberius succeeded Augustus.” Quincy got things done, but he was not loved, and one of the few artifacts of his presidency that remains is his stout walking stick with which he was known to thrash errant...
...tutors—for all practical purposes the equivalent of today’s professors—“to be with their pupils almost every hour of the day, and sleep in the same chamber with some of them at night,” wrote Samuel Eliot Morison, Harvard’s pre-eminent historian. In many cases, student and tutor remained life-long friends...