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Numbering among its Tutors Associate Professor Michael Karpovich, History: Professor William L. Langer, History; Associate Professor F. O. Matthiessen, History and Literature; Arthur Darby Nock, History of Religion; Eliot is one of the best staffed of the Houses...
...heavily-bushed mouth signal that this is nimble-witted company. Immediately one senses that here is a true scholar, soaked with the disciplinary English tradition. He is modest about his life-history, protesting that the academic life is a series of books and lectures. Endowed with no financial advantages, Nock struggled his way through the Portsmouth, England, public schools, gained scholastic renown by studying a path through Trinity College, Cambridge, and cased his mature days travelling, researching, reading and writing. But here is a character whose personality is so diverting that the usual stories of war-experiences, travel tales...
...commotion in the doorway has sounded his triumphant arrival and Nock shuffles up the aisle, tipping his cocked hat to admirers and gayly swinging a useless cane. As he hustles to the platform he appears flustered about the coming performance. He dumps out a stack or books and papers on the table and more or less tears of his monotonous black cloaking, revealing another layer of rumpled blackness. The first communication to the audience may be anything from a grin to an inimitable gargle -- one of those special Nock guttural noises denoting pause and hesitancy. Then a stream of words...
...thirty-nine, Nock is one of the more aggressive members of the Faculty. He has netted an enviable string of honorary degrees and societies in Europe and America. Among his several books is the well-known "Conversion." In his field of near-eastern ancient history, sociology and religion, he is the respected authority. Nock is an immutable believer in the disciplined education, preferring a mastery over a small ground to a widely spread glib acquaintance. To him the greatest social crime is the easy school. In this he speaks from experience, for, born of humble parentage, it was only...
...Nock absolutely refuses to let erudition exclude humor. A good time is his ideal, whether on the platform at Harvard or in the catacombs of Rome. A messy desk and a baggy suit are the first steps to scholastic success. He prides himself on the library so swelling that it over-flows onto the kitchen stove. Life for him is a succession of research, lectures, writing and travel. He must, in his own words, "walk just fast enough forward so as not to run backwards, Righto...