Word: magoun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps the most important forward step that the department has taken this year is the increase of emphasis on the cultural background of English literature rather than the scholarly side. Professor Munn and Professor Jones won praise for this, while certain lectures of Professor Lowes and Professor Magoun were criticized as appealing only to the pedantic sort of future Ph.D...
English 10--Whiting better than Magoun. A key course for Divisionals and lets people who dislike Chaucer avoid Chaucer...
...Modern Language field includes English, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Comparative Literature. Professor Robinson has been acting head of the division for the last half year. Professor Magoun is in Germany at present on a leave of absence...
...Ford '92, Smith Professor of French and Spanish; George Lyman Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature; Kirsopp Lake '25, professor of History; David M. Little '17, Curator of the Theatre Collection; John L. Lowest '05, Francis Literature; Francis P. Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature; Francis P. Magoun, Jr. '16, associate professor of Comparative Literature; Milman Parry, assistant professor of Greek and Latin; Arthur S. Pease '02, professor of Latin; Chandler R. Post '04, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts; Edward K. Rand '94, Pope Professor of Latin; Herbert W. Smyth '78, Eliot professor of Greek Literature Emeritus...
Although Professor Magoun is known to have been in sympathy with the Nazi regime for many years this was the first time that he has been publicly revealed as being against the Corporation's stand on the Hanfstaengl scholarship. He is known to be a close friend of President Conant and many members of the Faculty are surprised and amused at this difference in opinion over a political matter. In commenting upon the article in the ZEITUNG Magoun pointed out that it was a mistranslation and was not truly representative of the spirit in which he sent the confidential cable...