Excerpt from The Kaleidoscope, 1910-1911, Vol. 17

With the scholar's bent of mind and. An intense love of letters, he has ever since been engaged in literary pursuits, whether in the exacting sphere of the class-room or in the more congenial field of research and investigation. For more than a year he held the important position as manuscript reader for the well-known Publishing House of Henry Holt Co. - a position requiring great accuracy and breadth of knowledge as well as a sound and discriminating literary judgment, qualities possessed by Dr. Morrison in an eminent degree. During the session of i9o6-7 he filled the Chair of Latin and German at hampden-sidney and thus became further identified with his Alma Mater, of which he might almost be permitted to say, Cuius pars magna fui.

Since that time he has devoted himself largely to historical studies and investigation, being especially interested in the past of hampden-sidney and Prince Edward County. In this work he has rendered both the College and the County invaluable service, having already done much toward collecting and preserving various documents and archives of great antiquity and rare interest locally. A genuine lover of books, he is never more at home than when in their company, and here it may be said that the College Library is under special Obligations to him for the substantial assistance he has recently given in the matter of re-classifying its contents and for his many helpful suggestions looking to its better equipment and further development. In addition to a ready and intimate acquaintance with the library in all its details, he possesses a knowledge of the books themselves that is well-nigh encyclopedic. He can trace, with accuracy and ease, the checkered career of every volume of peculiar local interest there, and he handles these dusty tomes of ancient lore with a tenderness and devotion that only an ideal worship per of the hampden-sidney past and a true lover of the priceless legacies of antiquity could evince.

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