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Thence he moved to the University of Texas, where he taught from 1919 to 1925--a time when, according to Governor Jim Ferguson, Texas was "going hog-wild on higher education." After later teaching at Chapel Hill and Ann Arbor, Professor Jones finally came to Harvard with the Tercentenary ceremonies, in 1936. Besides shepherding 250 youngsters through English 1 this year and introducing first-year graduates to graduate study via English 185, he gives English 52 and English 70 and 170c in his special fields, Victorian Literature and American Literature since 1890. Jones thinks Harvard will get somewhere some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Howard Mumford Jones | 3/10/1943 | See Source »

...Ellis, S. J. '46, Eliot G--43 ELI 2197 Ellher, J. H. '45, Lowell H-13 TRO 9687 Ente, H. K. '46, Eliot H-34 TRO 3896 F Fern, B. H. '46, Eliot H-34 TRO 3896 Field, M. G. '45, Dunster K-32 ELI 2373 Ferguson, P. '46, Kirkland M-42 KIR 1641 Fishman, F. N. '46, Lowell J-31 TRO 5984 Fossa, P. '46, Adams D-33 KIR 8797 Frank, T. '44, Dunster F-41 TRO 8327 Freedman, A. L. '46, Adams E-12 KIR 9250 G Gage, D. D. '45, Winthrop C-51 ELI 2209 Gibson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Telephone Supplement | 3/3/1943 | See Source »

...misty-eyed farewell, the audience sang Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot, only to discover that old acquaintance had been forgot indeed-from the wings, a little anticlimactically, entered Elsie Ferguson, Judith Anderson, Katharine Cornell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The First 50 Years | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

...Roosevelt last week chose a man who seldom erupts: able, steady, slow-burning Senator Prentiss Marsh Brown of Michigan, 53, a Democrat and-through no fault of his own-a lame duck. Senator Brown did not want the job: after his defeat by Michigan's popular Judge Homer Ferguson last month (TIME, Nov. 16), he was ready to go back home to resume his law practice. But when the White House put the job up to him as a patriotic duty, conscientious Prentiss Brown had no choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Enter Grimly | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

While the returns were coming in, Judge Ferguson pulled a pencil from his pocket to make notes. It bore the legend UNITED STATES SENATE; he had picked up Senator Brown's pencil at the radio debate. The pencil was an omen: Judge Ferguson got 576,307 votes; Brown 549,614. Harry Kelly polled 632,674 votes; Van Wagoner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Michigan's Dilemma | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

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