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Samuel Eliot Morison '08, professor of History emeritus, was in Massachusetts General Hospital yesterday, reportedly suffering from a stroke...
...spokesman for Mass General yesterday confirmed that the 88-year-old Morison is hospitalized, but because of a request from Morison's family, refused to release any information about his condition...
...Morison retired from the Faculty in 1955. He won the Bancroft Prize for historical writing in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1960. He also wrote the five-volume Tercentennial History of Harvard University...
When I was an undergraduate, the Memorial Church minister refused its use for a Jewish wedding. Like Professor Kilson, he appealed to a nonexistent Calvinistic Trinitarianism that anyone who reads a history of Harvard like Morison's will find it never existed. Harvard's greatness is not because it was Unitarian but because the Unitarians had the good sense to let everyone come...
...stroke, the British obituaries were somewhat restrained. The Guardian observed that "his scheme of universal history was too absolute, and even his immense erudition too vulnerable...for his most ambitious work to prevail among contemporary generations." But some of those contemporaries were more generous. Harvard's Samuel Eliot Morison said that "he was one of the few people who dared to write on the broad sweep of history." Daniel Boorstin, recently confirmed as the new Librarian of Congress, commented that "few historians have spent themselves so unstintingly or so effectively in the effort to transcend the provincialism of their...