Word: murdock
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Bucknell University (Lewisburg, Pa.) Harvard's Dean Kenneth Ballard Murdock LL.D...
...agreement approved by the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard and the Trustees of Tufts, a joint governing board has been created for the general direction of the School. This executive committee consists of the presidents of the two institutions, Roscoo Pound, dean of the Law School. K. B. Murdock '16, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and two trustees of Tufts, F. C. Rodgden and Mrs. R. G. Hopkins, H. L. Hoskins, chairman of the department of History at Tufts, will serve as dean of the school...
Early one evening last week a heavy rainstorm drenched New Jersey. At the Passaic Home & Orphan Asylum, six boys -Jacob Merlnizek, John Murdock, Douglas Fleming, Rudolph Borsche' Frank & Michael Mazzola, all between 11 and 15-were worried. Maybe their baseball field was washing away. They cunningly approached their matron. Didn't she want to know if the rain had damaged her garden? She did. She said they might go out if they were careful to put on raincoats and rubbers. A quick look at the garden showed that it was all right. Closer inspection of the baseball diamond...
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...
...approaches, the name of James Bryant Conant '14, professor of Chemistry, forges more and more to the front. A dark horse at the time of President Lowell's resignation last November, the youthful chairman of the Department of chemistry appears now as the man of the hour. K. B. Murdock '16, dean of the Faculty, and Grenville Clark, '04, Fellow of Harvard college, continue to be the other favorites, with R. L. Lee '02, also a Fellow, the next most likely candidate...