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These courses are listed for "undergraduates and graduates". This indicates an exceedingly faulty estimate of Dr. Magoun's character on the part of the authorities of the English Department. Although still a young man, he has already pursued scholarship to the point of pedantry, and shows so great an enthusiasm for the mechanics of literature,--bibliographies, card catalogs, and philological dictionaries,--that he seems to have lost any love for literature itself. Doubt- less a valuable aid to graduate students in their highly technical researches, Dr. Nagoun possesses none of the qualities necessary for a teacher of undergraduates...
Upon emerging from English 11B, in which Dr. F. P. Magoun '16 had been talking on "Paradise Lost", he said, "Do you know, it is very difficult to teach Milton to my students. There is so much mythology and fine detail which is unintelligible to the Japanese, that it is nearly impossible to teach more than a small amount of Milton's works. I was surprised at how quickly the teacher read 'Paradise Lost' and the boys understood...
...proportion to the sacrifices of the debtor nations in the World War." Honorable mention was won by James Harry Smith '25, Tiptonville, Tean. The judges for the debate, which was held in Emerson J. yesterday evening, were Professor I. L. Winter '86, R. L. Hawkins '03, and F. P. Magoun...
...Henry Clifford of Bangor, Me.; Lawrence Coolidge of Boston; Joshua Raynolds Dean of Cohasset; William Partridge Ellison of Newton; John Monteith Gates of Elyria, O.; Courtlandt Sherrington Gross of West Newton; Austin Lamont of New York City; John Darwin Leekley of Muskogee, Okla., Carl Melville Lindner of Medford; Roger Magoun of Boston; John Newbold Robinson of Wakefield, R. L.; John Opdyke Rosecrans of Milwaukee, Wis.; Richard Sanders Scott of Wellesley; George Putnam Sturgis of Milton; Benjamin Eugene Swede of Conshohocken, Pa.; William Ullman of New York City; and Cecil Irton Wylde of Boston...
...Yard Low Hurdles.--Won by Howell (P); second, Avery (P); third Magoun (H). Time...