Historian Morison Enters Hospital Following Stroke

Samuel Eliot Morison '08, professor of History emeritus, was in Massachusetts General Hospital yesterday, reportedly suffering from a stroke.

A spokesman for Mass General yesterday confirmed that the 88-year-old Morison is hospitalized, but because of a request from Morison's family, refused to release any information about his condition.

Morison retired from the Faculty in 1955. He won the Bancroft Prize for historical writing in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1960. He also wrote the five-volume Tercentennial History of Harvard University.

The two-volume "European Discovery of America," published from 1971 to 1974, is Morison's most recent work.

Morison served as a private in the U.S. Army infantry in World War I, and was the U.S. Navy's official historian during World War II.