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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...
...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...