Morrison Pleased At His New Appointment As a Full Professor

Theodore Morrison '23, until recently lecturer on English, said yesterday he was "most pleased" to learn that the Board of Overseers had approved his appointment to the position of professor of English. Morrison, who presently teaches English Fb (The Writing of Verse) and English Kb (English Composition), had held the title of lecturer since 1939, when he was made director of English A, than Harvard's basic freshman course in composition.

Morrison joined the Faculty as an instructor in 1931 after working for a time on the editorial staff of The Atlantic Monthly. In 1932 he became director of the Bread Loaf Writers Conference in Vermont--an office he held until 1955. He remained in charge of English A for 12 years, up to the time that course was replaced by Gen Ed A.

In addition to teaching, Morrison has written several books of verse: "the Serpent in the Could" (1931), "Notes on Death and Life" (1935), "The Devious Way" (1944), and "The Dream of Alcestis" (1950); and three novels: "The Stones of House" (1953), "To Make a World" (1957), and "The Whole Creation" (1962). He has also translated and edited "The Portable Chaucer" (1949) and edited "Five Kinds of Writing" (1939).

One of Morrison's students has described him as "a man who is often frosty and wry but who radiates personal warmth." He's just sweet," she continued, "and can't even bring himself to call lines of verse or poems 'bad'--he just calls them 'unfortunate.'"