Word: magoun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professors Wiener and Magoun, in their Boston Herald briefs on the German-political-racial situation, might be amused to know how their arguments strike one of the general public who can not boast of great learning, but one who tries to limp along on a modicum of common sense...
Robert S. Hillyer, Associate Professor of English, has been granted leave for the second half of the year 1935-36, which he plans to spend travelling abroad. Francis P. Magoun, Jr., Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, and David V. Widder, Associate Professor of Mathematics, have been given the whole...
...retired last week from the firm of Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co. Great-grandson of the founder of the old banking house of Brown Brothers & Co., he is president of the New York State Chamber of Commerce. His retirement leaves only one Brother Brown in Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co.-Thatcher Magoun Brown...
...Taking a long view," said Francis P. Magoun, Jr. '16, associate professor of Comparative Literature, in an interview with the CRIMSON, "I see no essential justification of the peculiarly American system of 'course credits' where suitable substitutes, such as tutorial guidance, seminar organization, and comprehensive written or oral examinations are in effect...
...Kittredge's course in Beowulf, 3a is indispensable. To complete one's study of Old English with it, however, is analogous to leaving Latin with Caesar. It is an elementary course concerned mainly with the reading of prose varied by the often delightful and always illuminating comments of Mr. Magoun. The grammar, one of the simplest, is covered at almost breakneck speed and the reading begun before the student has mastered more than the demonstrative paradigm and the representative strong verbs. That reading consists largely of selections from the chronicles, touchdowns and lives of the saints with an occasional smattering...