DAMON ACCEPTS ASSISTANT PROFESSORSHIP AT BROWN

Samuel Foster Damon '14 has been appointed Assistant Professor in English at Brown University, it was announced yesterday by the Brown Faculty. He will begin his duties there with the starting of the academic year in September, 1927.

Since 1921 Mr. Damon has been an assistant in English at Harvard. He has instructed in English A and 28, and other English courses. This year he has assisted in English 31 at Radcliffe. Mr. Damon is best known as a poet and writer. He was a member of the original Harvard Poets, and has recently been elected president of the New England Poetry Club. Although his first volume of collected verse, "Astrolabe", appeared only recently, he is well known to readers of Harper's, The Nation, The Saturday Review of Literature, and other magazines.

In addition, he is an authority on William Blake, having written "William Blake--His Philosophy and Symbols", and "A New Page in Blake's Milton".