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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...
Harvard will have some of the most distinguished scholars in the world among the new professors who will come to the University to teach next fall, it was disclosed by the issue yesterday of the Courses of Instruction...
...English Department will be enriched by the coming of Dr. William Lawrence from England to teach the history of the Elizabethan stage, and in History Professor William Scott Ferguson and Professor Samuel Eliot Morison '08 will each take courses. In the Philosophy and Psychology Department Dr. Maurice deWulf will return to teach and Professor Wolfgang Kohler will come to the University...
...Wulf is a professor in the University, but he has been away for two years on leave of absence. For twelve years he was secretary to Cardinal Mercier and succeeded him as Professor of Philosophy at Louvain, Belgium, where he has spent the past two years. He will teach Medieval Philosophy, one of the most difficult of college courses, and also the course on Problems in Scholastic Ethics and Aesthetics...
Professor Samuel Eliot Morison '08 will return to the University to teach history after an absence of three years, during which he held the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professorship of American History at Oxford University. Professor Morison is one of the rising historians of the country. After taking his A.B. and Ph.D. at Harvard, he took an A.M. from Oxford and later attended the Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris. His published writings include historical works of considerable consequence...