Word: murdock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, will travel to Sweden next week to receive an honorary degree and witness an uncommon academic ceremony at the University of Upsala...
...Upsala it takes 11 years to earn a Ph.D. and they are as "rare as hens' teeth," Murdock says. When the candidate is ready, he tacks his thesis Luther wise, to the main front door of the University. The ensuing orals often last two days and resemble court-room battles. One professor is appointed to defend the candidate, and another criticizes him, Murdock reports...
...last week, Professor Matthiessen made his way downtown and engaged a room on the twelfth floor of the Manger, a commercial hotel next door to Boston's North Station. That evening he went out to dinner at the Beacon Hill home of his old friend, Professor Kenneth B. Murdock. Though their talk was mostly of books and poetry, Matthie seemed unusually depressed. About 11:30 he said goodbye. Shortly afterward he got to his room in the downtown hotel, spread out a note to whom it might concern. "I have taken this room in order to do what...
...police received a call from the hotel saying that a man had jumped from room 1219. Upon arrival at the City Hospital, the body was pronounced dead. It was identified later by Professor Murdock...
...note also asked that his sister, Mrs. Harold Neubrandt, of North Tarrytown, New York, and Professor Murdock be notified...