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Stuart P. Atkins, professor of German who is curently teaching Scandinavian B, yesterday called the present vacancy a "matter of great concern" and the appointment of a new professor in the field of Scandinavian Languages "long overdue...
Einar I. Haugen will fill a conspicuous gap in the Faculty next July when he becomes the University's only professor of Scandinavian Languages...
Haugen, who is now Thompson Professor at the University of Wisconsin, will teach both graduate and undergraduate courses with a probable emphasis on Norwegian, Henry C. Hatfield, Chairman of the Germanic Languages Department, said yesterday...
...University has been aware of the need for a professor of Scandinavian since the end of World War II, Atkins said. There was a man in this chair during the 1930's, but after his death the endowment was judged too small to continue the professorship. Additional funds since appropriated from the Program for Harvard College have made Haugen's appointment possible...
...next few weeks, Gene was happier than he had been in two years. Several of his friends visited him and related news of the outside world. ("Professor Levin read us all of Love's Labour's Lost today.") A Yalie, who had somehow heard of Gene's plan sent him a Care package with a letter of encouragement. Gradually, Gene began to vary his diet, and at the end of a week, was familiar with Chinese, Armenian, French, and Greek food. He read The Autobiography of Alice B. Tolkas, U.S.A., all of Marlowe's plays, Jane Eyre, To the Lighthouse...