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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...
...poets have carried tone and the sounds of words to the peaks reached by Emily Dickinson, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Prefessor of Rhetoric and Oratory, said last night in the fifth lecture of his series, "Poetry and Experience...
...poet of the private, inner world is both observer and actor, MacLeish continued. If his tone is false or selfconscious, his poem becomes unbearable. Emily Dickinson's poetry succeeds because she suffers but sees herself impersonally at the same time; "she is herself, and yet out of herself," MacLeish said, "dancing on the brink of self-pity, but rarely falling...
...begun his idyll, there was a Faculty meeting. When the discussion became dull, four professors who were sitting next to each other started to gossip. Each of them, it turned out, had Gene Robertson in his class, and knew of Gene's defection. "Let's visit him," one said. "When the boy meets us in person, he will see the light." "Knowledge is a wonderful thing," they told each other incidentally, "and we will (and have and shall for evermore) tell him what is important...