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Kenneth B. Murdock '15, professor of English and chairman of the Committee on General Education, yesterday conceded that the problem of freshman enrollment in elementary General Education courses was "probably more acute this year" than in the past...
While the situation is regrettable, Murdock said, it is not "very" serious, since a freshman can wait until next year to take a course he particularly wants. "We don't like limitations on course enrollments," he added, but plans for hiring section men, he said, were made some time in advance, and could not be exact...
Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory who has taught upper level General Education courses, termed the appointment "magnificent." He referred as did many faculty members, to the outstanding administrative jobs which Murdock did as Dean of the Faculty and Master of Leverett House (1931-41). "His senior common room was one of the most exciting places in the University. Out of this will come a superb administration and a fine core of people working in the administration...
Samuel A. Boar, professor of Government and lecturer in Social Sciences 2, said, "It will be splendid to have Murdock as chairman. I am delighted and I am sure that the rest of the faculty is equally pleased...
...Murdock, who was also formerly an assistant dean of the College, is best known for his studies of colonial literature. He has written "Increase Mather, the Foremost American Puritan," "Literature and Theology in Colonial New England," and others. He has edited "Selections from Cotton Mather" and with F. O. Mathiessen, "The Notebooks of Henry James...