PROF HOWARD PAYS JAGEMANN TRIBUTE

In a tribute to Professor Hans Carl Gunther von Jagemann, Professor of Germanic Philology, whose resignation from the Faculty was recently announced Professor William G. Howard '91, chairman of the German Department, spoke of Professor von Jagemann as one man whose teaching has long had a wide and helpful influence on a very large number of students all over the country. He told of how Professor von Jagemann's resignation brings to a close a period of 36 years of teaching at the University, during which time he has given his energy largely to the instruction of the more advanced courses in Germanic Philology, particularly to graduate students.

Professor Howard's statement to the CRIMSON last night follows:

"The resignation of Professor Hans Carl Gunther von Jagemann brings to an end with the current academic year an active teacher's career of 41 years, of which 36 will have been spent in the service of Harvard University. Throughout this period Dr. von Jagemann has devoted himself especially to Germanic Philology, and though at the beginning of his sojourn among us he did no little work in the German language and literature, he has of late given no courses which undergraduates are usually prepared to take. Upon graduate students, on the other hand, he has exerted strong influence, not merely as was natural upon students in his own Department, but upon the large group of students in the closely related Department of English. Hundreds of these men, now holding positions of responsibility all over the country, got in connection with his course in Gothic their general introduction to Germanic Philology. This course in particular has been a model of substantiality and skillful presentation. Both within and without the University, Professor von Jagemann is in high repute among the fraternity of scholars, as appears from his election a quarter of a century ago to the Presidency of the Modern Language Association of America. To the College he has not been in recent years so well known as formerly, because unable for special reasons to participate as fully as formerly in administrative and other affairs. But his interest in these matters has not diminished, not has his counsel failed. Those immediately charged with the duties that he will soon relinquish hope that in his well earned leisure he will continue to share with them the fruits of his experience".

Born in Grotikan, Germany, Professor von Jagemann was educated at Naumberg. Leipzig, and Tubingen, coming to the United States in 1881, and receiving his doctor's degree at Johns Hopkins three year later. From 1884 to 1886 he was professor of modern languages at Earlham College 1nd and for the next three years he was professor of Germanic languages at Indiana University. He joined the University teaching staff in 1889 as Assistant Professor of German Professor von Jagemann is author of text books for the study of German and of numerous articles on the Germanic and Romance languages.