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...instance, when President A. Lawrence Lowell announced his resignation in 1932, a search committee was named to find his successor, and speculation on the candidates began immediately. One of the natural targets was Dean of the Faculty Kenneth Murdock, who was then master of Leverett House...
...Dowling tells it, the committee worked through the summer, and toward the fall, and a rumor was leaked that Murdock was the committee's first choice. Naturally, both The Boston Herald and The Boston Globe went after the story, and sent their photographers to New York to meet the ocean liner on which the Murdocks were reportedly returning from Europe...
...next day, both papers ran photographs of the Murdocks, with articles reporting that the man in the picture was likely the next president of Harvard. But people at Harvard noticed that the woman in the picture was not Mrs. Murdock, but rather the wife of a senior tutor. Needless to say, Murdock was never again mentioned as a candidate for the presidency...
...There are a couple of practical considerations you have to take into account," says Martha N. Murdock, pro bono director for the Massachusetts Bar Association. "Poverty law is not straightforward or uncomplicated, so someone straight out of law school may not have the experience to handle complicated poverty law cases...
...caseload is very, very high and the firm is not receptive to taking pro bono cases, it's hard for lawyers to do pro bono," Murdock says. "It's not just a question of the lawyer's attitude...