Fred Norris Robinson, Gurney Professor of English Literature, and Louis Allard, Professor of French, will retire from active teaching at the end of this academic year, it was announced by the University yesterday afternoon.

Professor Robinson, whose retirement was predicted by the CRIMSON, last week, is a prominent scholar in the Celtic languages and early English literature and has been in the department of English here since 1894.

Professor Allard is generally regarded as one of the leading authorities on French literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A Faculty member here since 1906, he is perhaps best known outside the University for his work on "La Comedie de Moeurs on France an 19eme Siecle."

Both Robinson and Allard will become professors cmeriti, when their resignations become effective next September 1.