Samuel Eliot Morison was Professor of History at Harvard University. His books won two Pulitzer Prizes.

• The Puritan Age 1636-1707 1. 'First Flowers of Their Wilderness' 2. School of The Prophets 3. Decline and Revival Aaron's Rod 1708-1806 4. The Great Leverett 5. Wadsworth to Langdon 6. 'Good Old Colony Times' 7. 'Through Change and Through Storm' 8. Federalists and Unitarians The Augustan Age 1806-1845 9. President Kirkland 10. Expansion and Reform 11. President Quincy The Age of Transition 12. Minor Prophets 13. War and Peace the Olympian Age 14. President Eliot 15. The Harvest Season 16. College Life From War to War 17. The Lowell Administration 'The Age That Is Waiting Before' 18. 'To Advance Learning' Appendix. Statistics of Growth, 1869-1936 Index

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.

Samuel Eliot Morison was Professor of History at Harvard University. His books won two Pulitzer Prizes.

• The Puritan Age 1636-1707 1. 'First Flowers of Their Wilderness' 2. School of The Prophets 3. Decline and Revival Aaron's Rod 1708-1806 4. The Great Leverett 5. Wadsworth to Langdon 6. 'Good Old Colony Times' 7. 'Through Change and Through Storm' 8. Federalists and Unitarians The Augustan Age 1806-1845 9. President Kirkland 10. Expansion and Reform 11. President Quincy The Age of Transition 12. Minor Prophets 13. War and Peace the Olympian Age 14. President Eliot 15. The Harvest Season 16. College Life From War to War 17. The Lowell Administration 'The Age That Is Waiting Before' 18. 'To Advance Learning' Appendix. Statistics of Growth, 1869-1936 Index

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.

Samuel Eliot Morison was Professor of History at Harvard University. His books won two Pulitzer Prizes.

• The Puritan Age 1636-1707 1. 'First Flowers of Their Wilderness' 2. School of The Prophets 3. Decline and Revival Aaron's Rod 1708-1806 4. The Great Leverett 5. Wadsworth to Langdon 6. 'Good Old Colony Times' 7. 'Through Change and Through Storm' 8. Federalists and Unitarians The Augustan Age 1806-1845 9. President Kirkland 10. Expansion and Reform 11. President Quincy The Age of Transition 12. Minor Prophets 13. War and Peace the Olympian Age 14. President Eliot 15. The Harvest Season 16. College Life From War to War 17. The Lowell Administration 'The Age That Is Waiting Before' 18. 'To Advance Learning' Appendix. Statistics of Growth, 1869-1936 Index

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.