Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636-1936

This one-volume history of Harvard is not so much a summary of Professor Morison’s monumental work, of which two volumes remain to be written, as it is an entirely fresh handling of his vast material. With a mind saturated in the lore and tradition at his command, he has sat down to tell the whole story 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 the larger work, 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.