He graduated from Harvard in 1908 with his younger brother, Ray D. Murphy (1887–1964) (future chairman of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States 19xx-1952), where they were both in the Harvard Glee Club, Harvard Quartet and the Pi Eta Society.
He graduated from Harvard in 1908 with his younger brother Ray D. Murphy, where they both were members of the Harvard Glee Club, Harvard Quartet, and Pi Eta Society, and Ray would later become the chairman of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States from 19xx to 1952.