Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A group of Harvard professors, including Howard Mumford Jones, Kirtley Mather, and Harlow Shapley had previously written a public letter supporting the position of Ralph H. Gundlach, associate professor of Psychology, one of the dismissed teachers.
An award "for important contributions to civil rights" was made to football manager Frank S. Jones '50, who accepted the award on behalf of the football team and managerial corps, at a "Freedom Parade" program in Carnegie Hall in New York last Sunday night. Jones was confined to Stillman with...
Freedom House, a branch of the Willkie Foundation, informed Jones in a letter early last week that it would honor him. The letter said that "the democratic attitude of your athletic department (Jones is the first Negro to have been elected a football manager at Harvard) has earned the gratitude...
Jones claimed yesterday that he "had done nothing at all. The credit goes to Judkins (John B. Judkins '47, football manager in 1947), Nish (Dwight K. Nishimura '49, football manager in 1948), the coaches and the entire managerial system."
Strictly as an account of Dreiser's bitter early years, this is one of the best biographies of an American literary figure since Israfel, Hervey Allen's life of Poe. Its report of Dreiser's last years is perfunctory and its criticism of his work is so...