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Professor Murdock has been mentioned before as one who has a future at Harvard. Onetime (1919-22) assistant dean of the college, he is the author of two scholarly books on Puritan Increase Mather. He is an able executive, and (like most successful junior savants) he has eschewed the eccentricities which were once almost obligatory to fame. There have clustered about him no such legends as those relating to Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland or bushy-lipped Professor George Harold Edgell of the Fine Arts Department, who sometimes goes bicycling in Edwardian shepherd's-plaid knickerbockers. Professor Murdock...
...subjects are Tragedy and the Whole Truth, Art and the Obvious, Meditation on the Moon, Beliefs and Actions, Liberty and the Promised Land, To the Puritan All Things Are Impure, History and the Past, etc. etc. Of tragedy he says: "The fact is that tragedy and what I have called the Whole Truth are not compatible; where one is, the other is not. ... Of all the important works of contemporary literature not one is a pure tragedy. There is no contemporary writer of significance who does not prefer to state or imply the Whole Truth." Huxley believes democracy, equality...
...great anchors; the rooms are filled with many a marine trophy. But the weathervane on his flagpole and the firescreen in his living room are in the form of Zeppelins. Conversely, most of the Goodyear blimps were named for a yacht which has defended the America's Cup (Puritan, Volunteer, Mayflower, Defender, Vigilant). President Litchfield frequently rides in the blimps, which sometimes land on his grounds, once picked him from the deck of a liner, once took him from trainside in the mountains of California. But he has never flown in a Zeppelin...
...Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Trophy, a plaque showing a cap-&-gowned student clenching a diploma in his hand and striding stiffly across Harvard Yard toward the famed seated statue of Puritan John Harvard, was won by Boston Latin School from 1925 through 1928 successively, then by Exeter, then by Lawrenceville. This year's award, the final year of a second term of competition,* has not yet been made. No matter who is the 1931 winner, the Trophy goes permanently to Boston Latin for having won it four times out of seven...
...addition to being England's first poetess Orinda can claim attention as being one of the leaders of a new literary movement growing out of the transitional period during the time of the Commonwealth. Daughter of a Puritan and wife of a Puritan, she was, nevertheless, a Cavalier at heart and remained secretly loyal during the Commonwealth. Thus she carried the tradition of the earlier Cavalier poets over to the Restoration, soon after which she began to reap the praise of her contemporaries, including Dryden. The Matchless Orinda has now settled to her proper classification as one of the better...