As in James Hilton's Mr. Chips, the war has called back one of Harvard's most famous teachers. Professor Roger B. Merriman '96, remembered by generations of alumni as "Frisky," will give the lectures in the first half of History I, which he made the best-known of all Freshman courses.
Not only will his teaching entail an easing of his retirement but will necessitate his breaking a long-standing personal tradition by addressing an audience of women for the first time. He has not promised to curb his vehement chastising of hat-wearing or newspaper-reading during his lectures, and it is presumed that his classes will be as colorful as they are traditionally painted.
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