Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636-1936

By: Samuel Eliot Morison

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Paperback | 15 October 1986 | Edition Number 1

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This one-volume history of Harvard is not so much a summary of Samuel Eliot Morison's monumental work [The Tercentennial History of Harvard College and University, 1636-1936] as it is an entirely fresh handling of his vast material.

With a mind saturated in the lore and tradition at his command, Professor Morison has sat down to tell the whole story of Harvard informally and briefly. Documentation and all the learned apparatus of scholarly research are therefore omitted; but the same genial humor, the same ability to see the human implications of past events, that characterize his larger, multi-volume series on Harvard are preserved in this. The result is a marvelously entertaining volume, the history of Harvard that everyone has been waiting for, a model of vitalized historical writing.

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A salty narrative of the vicissitudes of an institution whose record mirrors America... A social history in the best sense, as earthy and humorous as a Dickens novel, but in the spirit better to be compared, perhaps, with biography of the Strachey school. In fact, Professor Morison has brought Harvard so much alive in his pages that biography seems a better term for his book than history. * New York Herald Tribune *
[Morison's] volume is rich in details as to the customs and manners of three centuries. Precise and luminous strokes tell the story of commencement and Class Day, with punches and without; of institute and Hasty Pudding; of Porcellian and A.D. and Pi Eta and D.U.; of Navy Club and Med. Fac.; of boating and baseball and football. Always the dominant influence has been of Bostonian wealth and family; but, even in the most puritanical times it has been high spirited. * New York Times *
No fragmentary quotations can indicate the unassuming, powerful scholarship, the tremendous thoroughness that has gone into the writing of Three Centuries of Harvard... Simplicity and sincerity blow away even the suspicion of proud didacticism, leaving unveiled a literary monument worthy of the oldest university in the United States. * Christian Science Monitor *
No one who had not completely mastered the towering piles of records which universities accumulate could possibly have written so authoritative a personal account... As for the educational questions treated, it must be said to Harvard's credit that there is hardly a controversial sore point in the whole range of higher education which has not been fought over in Cambridge during the last three hundred years. * New England Quarterly *

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Non-Fiction Education Higher & Further Education History Regional & National History History of the Americas

The Puritan Age 1636-1707
'First Flowers of Their Wilderness'
School of The Prophets
Decline and Revival
Aaron's Rod 1708-1806
The Great Leverett
Wadsworth to Langdon
'Good Old Colony Times'
'Through Change and Through Storm'
Federalists and Unitarians
The Augustan Age 1806-1845
President Kirkland
Expansion and Reform
President Quincy
The Age of Transition
Minor Prophets
War and Peace the Olympian Age
President Eliot
The Harvest Season
College Life From War to War
The Lowell Administration
'The Age That Is Waiting Before'
'To Advance Learning'
Appendix
Statistics of Growth, 1869-1936
Index
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