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MORISON PUBLISHES VOLUME ON "FOUNDING OF HARVARD"

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"Neither a world of learning nor a house of play" is the summation of Harvard given by Samuel Eliot Morison '08 in his "Founding of Harvard College," which is being published this March.

Working backward from volume three of his series, which was written several years ago, Professor Morison's current work will be the first book of the series. Some time later one is led to expect, volume two, which will also be volume three, will come into print.

In his book, Morison finds the major value of Harvard in the heterogeneity of the individuals who make up this "microcosm of the world in which we live."

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