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xiii Annaul Report of the Delegacy Departmental Notes Professor Cocking contributed lecture on 'Imagination and Poetry' to an intercollegiate series on contemporary French poetry and another on 'Camus's Ideas on Art' to series on Camus October 1972 and January 1973 He broadcast talk on contemporary French intellec- tual trends as part of the Third Programme's 'French Sunday' January 7th arranged to mark our entry into the The talk was broadcast again in April In February he was made 'Officier de l'Ordre national du merite' by the French Government Dr Landers directed and took part in the Annual Easter Vacation Course in French for External Students arranged by the University He acted as External Examiner for the University of Reading DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN Number of Students Single Honours 35 Combined Studies 13 Subsidiary 26 Occasional Students Postgraduates 13 In addition 11 students spent the year abroad Departmental Notes In January 1973 Professor Wisbey arranged and presided over the first meeting of Medieval German Study Group which meets in the College Its members are predominantly staff and postgraduate students of the University some of the participants come from other Uni- versities including Oxford and Cambridge Three meetings were held during the rest of the session one of which was addressed by Martin Jones of the Department The other speakers were Professor Helmut Brackert of the University of Frankfurt and Nigel Palmer of the University of Durham During the year Professor Wisbey was appointed to the Council of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies and acted as External Examiner in German at the Universities of Exeter and Manchester In the Michaelmas Term Professor Wisbey conducted an Inter- collegiate Seminar for staff and postgraduates on Literary Applications of the Computer Facilities for literary computing are now provided