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Faculty NewsEdgar Johnson of the faculty of City College, New York has been appointed to the English department for the remainder of this semester to conduct the classes of Professor Alice D. Snyder. Educated at Columbia University, Mr. Johnson first taught English there and served also as assistant to Irwin Edman in the Department of Philosophy. Later he taught English at Washington University in St. Louis, and at Hunter College. In addition to contributing numerous articles to periodicals such as the New Republic and the North American Review, he has published three books since 1937; One Mighty Torrent: the Drama of Biography, A Treasury of Biography, and a novel, The Praying Mantis. He is now completing a book on the philosophy of satire to be brought out by Simon and Schuster. Mr. Johnson has been granted a part time leave of absence from City College to enable him to teach at Vassar but he will continue a graduate seminar in criticism there and also a series of lectures which he is giving at the New School for Social Research.Professor Helen E. Sandison has been elected by the Department of English to succeed Miss Snyder as chairman.War ServiceDr. Charles C. Griffin, Associate Professor of history, has been appointed to a post in the new division of Reports and Research of the U. S. Department of State. He reported to Washington in February to take up his duties there. Dr. Griffin will serve as an assistant to Dr. Lewis Hanke, director of the Hispanic Foundation of the Library of Congress, who has been lent to the State Department to head the new division. Its work will be the collection and coordination of information affecting the making of foreign policies, especially political. Dr, Griffin's work will be concerned with the Latin American countries.*£* Assistant Professor Boris G. Karpov of the Department of Astronomy has been appointed assistant mathematician in the Ballistic Research Laboratory at Aberdeen, Maryland.Ralph S. Palmer, who joined the Vassar faculty last spring as research associate in the Graduate Division of Conservation, has been sworn in as an ensign and reported for active duty in February.Margaret Davis, 1939, assistant in the Department
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Poughkeepsie Vassar Alumnae Quarterly
Poughkeepsie, New York, US
Thu, Apr 15, 1943
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