Word: murdock
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...Game), the story concerns an overly ethical professor of ethics (Hans Conried) faced with flunking a star basketball player before the big game. A fellow facultyman: Playwright Marc (The Green Pastures) Connelly, making one of his occasional appearances as an actor. Wrote the Philadelphia Inquirer's Henry T. Murdock: "An evening of hearty laughter with no complicating complexes." Opens on Broadway...
Kenneth B. Murdock, chairman of the Committee on General Education, has released the official announcement of Humanities 140, "The Literature of Worldliness." The new Spring term course will be taught by Louis Kronenberger, Abbott Lawrence Professor of English, and enrollment is limited to 30 students...
...because teachers have departed and no new ones have been hired to replace them. Perry Miller's main concern now, as he regularly informs the English 7 audience, is with his own research and his graduate students; he teaches in the college only fall semester. Lynn comes and goes. Murdock has been drawn into the Gen Ed A program and has relinquished American studies entirely. Matthiesson never was replaced. By all rights the department should have at least two new appointments in the field, just to get the English department back up to its previous anemic strength...
...course, and the body of American literature is not big enough for a separate department. But certainly if we can lavish a course on "the so-called Scottish Chaucerians, Henry, Dunbar, Douglas and Lindsay," we can afford a course in the exclusive study of contemporary American poetry. Courses like Murdock's old one in the American novel before 1890, and Wilbur's Poe course, should be resurrected. There should be at least one full course in the modern American novel. There could easily be a course in just the American novels written between the two world wars. American short stories...
Last February, the CEP, headed by Dean Bundy and Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, issued a short but significant report containing far-reaching proposals for amending Honors and non-Honors instruction. Guided by its belief that "many able students are not doing their best under existing conditions, because they are not sufficiently engaged or challenged," the Committee presented to the Faculty what has since been termed the "Honors for all" program...