Word: mumford
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Dramatizing the best of the past-the American past-was the achievement of crisp, eloquent Howard Mumford Jones, 70, Harvard's Abbott Lawrence Lowell professor of the humanities. A former president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Jones spoke out sharply against McCarthyism in the 1950s. It was a patriot's protest; few scholars are so enamored of U.S. ideals. Author Jones (The Pursuit of Happiness), who will lecture at M.I.T. this fall, is convinced that "Americanists" have one of the toughest fields around-a thicket of North American lore, its European roots...
...Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English and a staunch defender of the lecture system, feels that another weakness of the lecture system is that it is the "star system" at the moment and that each lecturer acts too much on his own. He believes that if lectures met together periodically to exchange views they might help one another develop better...
Walter J. Bate '39 will succeed Howard Mumford Jones as Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities on July 1. Bate, a distinguished scholar in 18th century literature, is chairman of the Department of English...
After 26 years as a member of the Harvard faculty, Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, will retire this summer...
...York Times book section of Feb. 3, describing Howard Mumford Jones' course Neglected Masterpieces," suggested its readers contact Lamont Henry James if they wished to the course's reading list...