Stearns Morse

Stearns Morse, 83, Former Professor At Dartmouth, Dies

Stearns Morse a retired professor of English and a former dean of freshmen at Dartmouth College, died Saturday night at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover, N.H., after a brief illness, the college announced. He was 83. Professor Morse, a specialist in American fiction, was a member of the Dartmouth faculty for 37 years until he retired in 1960.

Professor Morse was born in 1893 in Bath, N.H., on a farm first cultivated by his great grandfather in the 18th century. He later moved with his family to Lawrence, Mass. He was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard in 1915 and received his M.A. there the following year. He was later associated with Little Brown, and Company, the publishing house, and The New Republic. He served in the Army Signal Corps during World War I.

Professor Morse joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1923 after serving two years as head of the English department at the Morristown School in New Jersey. Always fascinated by the mountains of the Presidential Range near Hanover, he edited “Books of the White Mountains” and “Lucy Crawford's History of the White Mountains.”

Survivors include his widow, Helen Field Morse of Bath; two sons, Richard of Honolulu, and S. Anthony of Amherst, Mass., and a daughter, Mrs. Henry P. McKean Jr., of New York City.

Burial services will be private, with a memorial service to be held early in October at a date to be announced later.

"Stearns Morse, 83, Former Professor At Dartmouth, Dies." The New York Times, September 6, 1976. Accessed August 26, 2019 from https://www.nytimes.com/1976/09/06/archives/stearns-morse-83-former-professor-at-dartmouth-dies.html N.C.