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James B. Munn '12, professor of English, emeritus, died Monday night at age 76 in his Cambridge home...
Munn was a member of the Faculty from 1932 until his retirement in 1957 and served for ten years as chairman of Harvard's English Department. An accomplished scholars, Munn was interested in the teaching of undergraduates. During the postwar era, his course, "The Bible as Literature," was among the most popular in the College...
...close friend, John N. D. Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature, emeritus, said yesterday that Munn was "both a serious and jolly theologian in this course. He gave himself freely to the welfare of the College and all its inhabitants--young and old--and was a great stabilizing influence during the difficult war years...
Munn made extensive and often anonymous donations of rare works of English belles-lettres to the Houghton Library. He gave works from his personal collection, as well as works purchased for the library...
According to Harvard tradition, every freshman must prove his manhood in three great trials. He must survive the Radcliffe mixer, he must pass freshman English-- and he must get 30 PT's each semester...