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...front of his large fireplace is a mountain of blue books. University rules require that each test booklet is kept for one year after the examination. And so Nock stacks the books carefully and on the three hundred and sixty-fifth day, he sweeps the pile into the fire. Then he prepares for the next batch...
During the occupation, Nock was a little awed by the Nary. "They were much faster on the stairs," he remembers, "and that student voice on the loud speaker below it was beastly!" The Navy, however, was greatly awed by Arthur Darby Nock. Harrassed officers tried many manctivers to case Nock to civilian quarters, but they could not budge his resistance nor his thousands of books...
Master Finley recalls, "When the Navy fellows first came here, many looked like they had just come out of the S.S. Oklahoma boiler room. Nock would come up to these boys, whisper a little Latin phrase in their cars, and bob off down Dunster Street. The boys knew then that they were at Harvard...
...Nock's associates, while delighted by his eccentricities, always stress his many kindnesses to those around him. His acquaintanceship with under-graduates is somewhat limited, but to the graduate and even the professor, he is always helpful. Personally, he counts the companionship of the Society of Fellows as extraordinarily valuable...
...literary interests, Nock readily admits that he is not an intellectual reader. "I like murder mysteries," he says. "It is the one field on which women are superior...