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Crane Brinton, Chairman of Harvard's Society of Fellows, recalled that Nock had enjoyed "telling shaggy dog stories" at the Society's weekly dinners. "He was a well-known anecdotist," Brinton said. "He was active both in the election of Junior Fellows and at our dinners until his death." Nock was for 25 years a Senior Fellow in the Society...
During the last years of his life, Finley said, Nock "became immersed in an infinite particularity of memory. His knowledge was not like a rope, but like a beach of sand...
Finley described Nock's system of taking notes. He would tear pieces of paper off undergraduate blue books...
Funeral services for Arthur Darby Nock will be held in the Memorial Church in Harvard Yard at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow. The Rev. R. Jerrold Gibson, acting chairman of the Board of Ministers, and Krister Stendahl of the Harvard Divinity School will lead the services...
...Nock's undergraduate course, History of Religions 101, was well-known to students at the University. Undergraduates packed the front rows of seats at his lectures, straining to hear what the sometimes unintelligible scholar was saying