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Spotting the man who would succeed frosty old Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell as Harvard's president has been a game almost as popular as "Murder." It began a, year and a half ago with the appointment of Dr. Kenneth Ballard Murdock, 36, as Harvard's dean of Arts & Sciences (TIME, Sept. 28; Oct. 12, 1931). The Boston Globe scored a "beat" on the appointment, began at once reporting that Dean Murdock was being groomed for the presidency. Later other candidates were discussed over Boston tea tables, but Dean Murdock seemed to be ahead-until last week, Then...
Polite conversation in Boston has buzzed for some time over who would be Harvard's next president and who would be the Athenaeum's next librarian. The first question is still open: for the presidency, which may not be filled until next autumn, Dean Kenneth Ballard Murdock is still in the lead, with Headmaster Francis Parkman of St. Mark's School increasingly mentioned. The second question was answered last week, and surprisingly: the "First Gentleman's Library in the World'' has a lady librarian for the first time in its 126 years...
...successor is chosen and ready to take office. The question of a successor was, unlike the same question at Princeton, not without likely answers. Dr. Lowell has long been suspected of having a candidate in mind. In any discussions by the Overseers the following would certainly be mentioned: Kenneth Ballard ("Cotton-Top") Murdock, 37, the scholarly, efficient, humorless Harvardman who was elected Dean of Arts & Sciences last year (TIME, Oct. 12, 1931); Edward Allen Whitney, Associate Professor & Tutor in History and Literature; Francis Parkman of the famed Harvard family; Missouri-born Professor George Harold Edgell of the Fine Arts Department...
Died. Russell Henry Ballard, 57, president of Southern California Edison Co., Ltd. and of California Institute Associates (backers of Caltech); of pneumonia: in Los Angeles...
...Kenneth Ballard Murdock, Harvard dean of Arts & Sciences Litt.D...