Word: murdock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kenneth B. Murdock '16, director of General Education, commented that the suggestion for increased personal study was good "in principle" and was something which the University should work for, "even though it would take a long time...
Rhinelander resigned form the directorship of General Education here last May, when the Administration decided to rotate the post among tenured faculty members. Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, replaced...
...Professor of Applied Sciences; J. Peterson Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science; Wilbur K. Jordan, President of Radcliffe and Professor of History; Harry Levin, Assistant Professor of Education; Paul C. Mangelsdorf, Professor of Botany; Edward S. Mason, George F. Baker Professor of Economics; Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature and Director of General Education; and Robert B. Woodward, Morris Loek Chemistry Professor...
...himself is "not greatly concerned with any single theory of General Education," but rather with the individual teacher. Murdock's feeling is that General Education, in an era of ever-increasing specialization, needs greater not less emphasis...
Programs similar to general education have degenerated into mere surveys whose apparent purpose is to make their students "better readers of the New York Times." Murdock feels that a primary criterion at Harvard should continue to be that "every course fits people better than they would other wise be fitted to live in our free society." But not from a Five-Foot Shelf. "I hope what we offer," he smiles, "can't all be put on a shelf.PAUL H. BUCK...