Word: murdock
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Besides Amherst, Brower has two distinct models for a Harvard house. One, Kenneth Murdock's Leverett House in the thirties, was "a marvelous experience" for him, then a young member of its tutorial staff. The other is the English college and specifically Christ's College, Cambridge, which he vividly recalls from his two years there after graduating from Amherst. "It was a revelation. The college is a wonderful institution, really the center of the student's intellectual life...
...knew Arthur Watkins' career in Washington was surprised at those qualities. But few knew his career. He first ran for Senator in 1946, accepting the nomination as a party duty when few thought he had a chance to beat the incumbent, Abe Murdock, a New Deal Democrat. Watkins won by 4,885 votes. He served a quiet but hard-working term, during which he was mainly noted as an admirer of Robert Taft and a foe of executive encroachment on the legislative branch. In 1952 he was re-elected (after not taking up a McCarthy offer to campaign...
...most cases, while Junior Fellows study in close connection with Professors in their field, they are under only the most general eye of the Senior Fellows. These form an unusual group in their own right: Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Kenneth B. Murdock, Samuel Eliot Morison, and Alfred North Whitchead have been past members. The present group of Senior Fellows is led by Crane Brinton and includes Frederick L. Hisaw, Harry T. Levin, Arthur Darby Nock, Renato Poggioli and Edward M. Purcell...
According to Cohen and Wolff, a statement by Kenneth B. Murdock, professor of English, was typical of the faculty response. Murdock commented, "The question of student cutting on Saturdays or any other day seems to me to involve the responsibility of the student rather than the instructor. If a student feels that he can afford to cut without damage to his grade, he may take the risk...
...doubtful freshmen in poor standing. One of the four was later dismissed, but two of the others became successive varsity football captains. In such a fashion was a House reputation born and the ideal cross-section of the student body soon warped. Leverett, for instance, with Professor Kenneth B. Murdock as master soon began to attract a large percentage of the College's English concentrators. On the other extreme, Dunster with three top economics tutors found itself in 1932 with only two economics concentrators in the House...