Word: murdock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HAROLD MURDOCK DIES...
...Dean Murdock's report in today's CRIMSON stressing the need for weeding out men who have not clearly demonstrated their worth will be welcomed by all undergraduates plagued by the problem of section men. The recent action by the English Department in dismissing several instructors seems to indicate that sweeping changes are in order, which gives rise to the hope of an improvement in personnel of the more popular courses where perhaps the burden of stuffy instruction is felt most heavily...
...James Fenimore Cooper," Professor Murdock, Harvard...
University. No. 2 Harvard administrator is Kenneth Ballard ("Cotton-top") Murdock, 38, professor of English and dean of the faculty of arts & sciences. Son of a Boston banker, he is solemn, efficient, popular, scholarly, and the author of two books on Increase Mather. He has been President Conant's warm friend since boyhood, was best man at his wedding. But their relations were strained for a time last year by James Conant's shy embarrassment when, not long after congratulating Friend Murdock on his certain election to Harvard's presidency, he himself got the job. Some Harvardmen...
...Dean Murdock's faculty of 300-odd teaches in both College (enrollment: 3,450) and Graduate School (enrollment: 915). President Conant has lately proposed to restore its voice in administrative affairs by substituting a representative assembly of some 60 members for present poorly-attended general faculty meetings...