Word: murdock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Emerson D is filled these days with English concentrators and dilettantes leaning forward to memorize Perry Miller's interpretations of the White Whale; Sever Hall draws about a roomful of the less dilettantish who wish to gain Kenneth Murdock's analyses of American literature to 1825; and the Coop is stocked with books by Faulkner, Twain, Hawthorne, Cooper, and the Puritan writers...
...Wendell who can truly be called the founder, and the main supporter of American literature at Harvard in its early years. Kenneth Murdock has said that the history of the teaching of American literature at Harvard is not the story of "general attitudes, but of men," and Wendell is perhaps the prime example. An avowed Anglophile, his beard and spats gave him the appearance of "a real professor," in the words of one awed freshman in his course. It is told that upon walking into his first class of the term and being greeted by thunderous applause, he responded with...
...Literature at Harvard, Bliss Perry, began teaching a graduate course on Emerson. This was the first non-survey U.S. literature course to be offered and one of the few non-survey courses in the department. Survey courses, " in outline," were "the norm for college literature courses in that day," Murdock explains, adding, "I wouldn't be caught dead giving one like that...
...name was added to the "greats" of Harvard teachers of American literature. Murdock, who had taught part of English 33 the year before, took over the survey course alone, and began as well a course in "Problems in Early American Literature" which was another departure from the English 33 approach...
Marlboro's scheme of general education is closely modeled on the Harvard system with strong influence from the St. John's College "100 Great Books" program. The college's Council of Academic Advisers includes Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Chairman of the Committee on General Education at Harvard...