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Several factors contributed to the Department's small course list this spring, Bate said. Only two assistant professors are on the Department's staff this year, compared to the usual four or five. Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, is heading two half-courses instead of his usual four because of his work in Humanities 143, and three other men dropped a half course each to teach a Freshman Seminar...
Some courses refuse to give exams back, although interested students may re-examine them. For example, Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, keeps his Humanities 133 exams in case disputes arise, and emphasizes that the graders don't have time to write comments...
Time was when Harvard's presidential jokes concerned majestic Abbott Lawrence Lowell, whose secretary once told a caller: "I'm sorry, sir. President Lowell has gone to Washington today, to call on Mr. Taft." With President Kennedy (Harvard '40) taking office this week, Washington has a whole new Harvard joke book-not boffo Broadway jokes, but subtle, like for the initiates...
Fair, Gordon McKay Professor of Sanitary Engineering and Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering, commented, "I am delighted that Mr. Pappenheimer has been appointed and that the sciences will still be represented among the Masters." Although resigning from the position at Dunster House that he has held since 1948, Fair will continue on the Faculty in his two professorships...
Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, will open the conference Jan. 17 with a public lecture on "Religion and Scholarship...