Word: murdock
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Unfortunately for both Harvard and the General Education program, little is likely to come of Professor Murdock's recent expression of interest in Advanced Placement exams to exempt students from General Education courses. The compromise between "liberal education" and a modified distribution requirement which is the foundation of the General Education program is so uneasy that any attempt to disturb it will encounter opposition from some quarter, and any sort of exemption would require a revision of basic philosophy...
...could get advanced placement examinations in the Humanities and Social Sciences, I would be very much interested in having them replace the required General Education courses," Kenneth B. Murdock '16, chairman of the Committee on General Education, asserted last week...
Trailing by a goal with only fifty seconds remaining, Yale Coach Murray Murdock pulled Jones in favor of a sixth skater. Stout defensive work held off the Elis for half a minute until the puck was cleared and stolen at center ice by Bud Higginbottom who fed to Dick Fischer. With only defenseman Bruce Smith standing in the goal Fischer fired chest high from about 18 feet, but Smith was able to deflect the disk over the cage to prevent further damage
Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Chairman of the Committee on General Education, commented, "I am much in favor of this kind of experimentation...I think this is a step in the right direction." Other members of the committee tended to concur with Murdock's judgment...
...Murdock was emphatic on the point of individual decision. There is tremendous emphasis on finals at the present, he points out, but this is no more a reason for abolishing finals in courses which need them than retaining them in courses which would be better with papers. No outsider can say what an individual course may need, he added...