Word: magoun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called English 94. Two new half-courses which will normally form a full course will be known as English 25a and 25b. They will deal with Anglo-Saxon poetry. English 75, which was discontinued this year, will be given next winter by F. P. Magoun, Jr., '16, associate professor of Comparative Literature, and will stress the problems of the English language. Magoun's course on old English dialects has been discontinued...
Comparative Literature 4--Studies in Comparative Literature: The Lais of Marie de France. Associate Professor Magoun. To be ommitted...
English 81--Old English Dialects and English Place-Names. Associate Professor Magoun. Te be given...
...Lammon's Brut," Professor Magoun, Sever...
...Kittredge's course in Boowulf, 3a in 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, loechdoms, and lives of the saints with an occasional smattering...