Word: magoun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Somewhat annoyed at the unexpected publicity his telegram to Dr. Ernst Hanfstaengl received last week Francis P. Magoun, Jr. '16, associate professor of Comparative Literature, told the CRIMSON that it was a decided breach of confidence and good friendship which the Nazi press agent showed when he allowed the telegram which Magoun had sent to be published in the Nazi organ, DEUTSCHE ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG. for October 11. Magoun insisted that he had cabled the Harvard alumnus as one close friend to another, and that he was at a loss to understand why "Putsy" had broken faith over this personal matter...
...Hanfstaengl has received the following telegram from Dr. Francis P. Magoun, Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University: "The Harvard Alumni are ashamed on account of the action of the University Corporation." Another American scholar, Professor Matthew T. Mellon, has likewise informed Dr. Hanfstaengl by telegram, that he himself has offered President Conant of Harvard University $1000 for a scholarship, with the condition that the money should be used according to the intention of Dr. Hanfstaengl. "As an American citizen I should like to place my service at your disposal, so that your good intentions will be acknowledged in America...
...cannot see why Prof. Magoun needs to be called severely to task by Professor Wiener for recounting the philosophy of the Nazis. I was thankful to see it succinctly put, and did not leap to the immediate conclusion that Prof. Magoun was a rabble-rouser. If I explain to the press why Eskimos eat candles, or state what particular gastronomic pleasure cannibals derive from missionaries, is it to be assumed that I approve of such edibles or such ethics, or that I am a cannibal...
Professor Magoun, in the last paragraph of his first letter, clears himself of any dogmatic opinion. He states, "Except from a short-term point of view it is highly doubtful if these policies have damaged German universities. And the principles at which they (the Nazis) have struck represent not so much an attack on "academic freedom" as an attempt to check irresponsibility toward what seem (and please note the words "what seem") to the German people to be the highest aspirations of our western civilization." In other words, Professor Magoun says indirectly that for a short-term period the German...
Again, I repeat that I can see nothing in Professor Magoun's letter to make him such a target. He underwrote nothing. It is not be who I would charge with propaganda...