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...Knight McMahan '33, instructor and tutor in Philosophy, former First Marshal of Phi Beta Kappa, and first scholar of his class, is also new to Dean Leighton's office this year. As head proctor in Massachusetts Hall last year, his clarion call rivaled General Apted's in quieting the Yard when riot flags were flying...
...McMahan and Keppel will assume the duties formerly cared for by Dean Bowditch and Dean Henry Chauncey '28, the latter devoting his full time to the administration of National and Freshman scholarships...
...McMahan a Top-Ranking Scholar...
After preparing at Harter-Stanford Township High School in Flora, Illinois, McMahan came to Cambridge on a scholarship given by the Harvard Club of Chicago. His busy undergraduate years, during which he was on the Leverett House Committee and won the Palfrey Exhibition, were climaxed by election to Phi Beta Kappa in his Junior year, becoming First Marshal the next year, and graduating summa cum laude...
After holding a Henry Russell Shaw Traveling Scholarship from 1933 to 1934, McMahan settled down at the University to study philosophy. He received a Ph.D. in 1937 and for the past two years has served as an assistant in Philosophy and a proctor...