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...University Council. At one point in Harvard history, there was a more active Academic Council that consisted of “all the professors of all the faculties” and served as “an advisory board for appointments,” wrote Samuel Eliot Morison, Class of 1908, the author of “Three Centuries of Harvard: 1636-1936.”And according to Morison, the Academic Council was used for a time by President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, who led the University from 1869 to 1909.Though the body has gone through some...
...than under the more exacting Intelligence Identities Protection Act. But national-security lawyer Kate Martin says, "Civil libertarians have always objected to [the Espionage Act] being used to prosecute leaks to the press." Though Ellsberg's indictment was dismissed, the statute was used to convict naval analyst Samuel Morison, in 1985 for giving a satellite photo to a defense magazine, and Pentagon official Lawrence Franklin last week for passing secrets to a pro-Israel group. --By Viveca Novak and Mike Allen
...World island he christened San Salvador in 1492. Yet he left no marker, and scholars have spent nearly 500 years since in debating the site. On the eastern rim of the Bahamas, Rum Cay, Grand Turk and Cat Island have been suggested. In 1942 Columbus Biographer Samuel Eliot Morison declared that the landfall was Watling Island, today's San Salvador...
...established conclusively that Portuguese claims to prior discovery of the Americas had no basis in fact, Columbus' biographer set to work. "My profession is history; my avocation is sailing. I combined them." On more than four occasions since 1937, and with kindred spirits of the Harvard Columbus Expedition, Morison went forth upon the ocean in the wake of his hero, the Admiral. He returned with a tale, stranger than any fiction, and as salty...
Right now, in order, as he puts is, "to help cut the budget at Cambridge," Professor Morison is giving students at Johns Hopkins the benefit of his wisdom. But up in Widener 417, books, maps, charts and pictures about the discovery, leave no doubt as to his eventual return. A lifetime of service and association with the University gives John Harvard more than a right to claim Columbus Junior...