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According to Boston police, Matthiessen registered at the Manager at 6:50 p.m. yesterday. He then went to dinner at the home of his friend and colleague, Kenneth Murdock, Higginson Professor of English Literature. He left the Murdocks' home at 11:30 p.m. and apparently returned directly to the hotel...
...other changes, Paul D. Bartlett Erving Professor of Chemistry, will succeed George B. Kistiakowsky, Lawrencs Professor of Chemistry, as Chemistry, Department chairman, while John M. Gaus, professor of Government, will replace Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Higginson Professor of English Literature, as head of the Committee on Higher Degrees in American Civilization...
Since all this is a moral problem, said Murdock, he thought that his views should be dealt with by society's moral leaders, the clergy. "No doubt it seems absurd to think of the clergy as leading a movement to relax a standard of sexual morality ... I remind you, however, that it was the Protestant clergy who brought about the first great sexual reform of modern times by attacking and reversing the restrictive taboo of ecclesiastical celibacy. There is no inherent reason why they could not lead a second reform of equal magnitude and importance, especially with the cooperation...
Short of Ideal. Scientist Murdock's challenge got a quick answer. The Rev. William J. Gibbons, of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, rose to the defense of premarital chastity. "Man," said Jesuit Gibbons, "is a moral being . . . Man's reason, properly used, can still tell him what ought to be, even if his concrete behavior falls short of the ideal . . . Sex, like any other tendency in man, must be regulated by reason. Man, not being governed by the detailed instincts of lesser animals, would find his tendencies running wild were he not to regulate them by reason...
Anthropologist Murdock was also answered by Lutheran Minister Luther E. Woodward of the New York State Department of Hygiene. Said he: "From his findings that 70% of the cultures he studied have no taboo against premarital promiscuity, Professor Murdock jumps to the conclusion that the taboo is out of place in this culture. This is not a scientific conclusion on his part. You can't transplant the sex habits of the inhabitants of Truk and the Samoa Islands into Christian industrial America unless you transplant the meaning those sex habits have there ... It may well be that...