Word: mumford
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...funds from the American Friends of the Middle East, a notoriously anti Israel organization. I infer it is for that reason that no representative of Israel is to appear in the panel on the Near East and its problems, which is dominated by representatives of the Arab states.... Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities...
...Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanties, will give the first of a series of lectures on "Humane Traditions America" at 4:15 p.m. in the Allston Lecture Hall. Jones will discuss "The Image of the New World...
...Howard Mumford Jones, first permanent occupant of the chair, criticized the "pessimism and parochialism" of American scholarship, which falls to provide "the proper fusion of national and international ideas." Students of the national culture often fall in two respects: they do not understand the United States' European background fully; and they tend to bypass Latin American contributions to literature...
...convocation in Memorial Hall at 8 p.m. tomorrow will open the 85th session of the school. Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Humanities, and Robert Ulich, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education. Emeritus, will speak at the annual gathering, representing the Faculty of Arts and Science and the Faculty of Education. Thomas E. Crooks '49, Director of the Summer School, will introduce the two professors...
...same time, it is an ideal school for men who would have no other chance to deal with the furtive gleams of their own minds. There is a breath-taking charm in a system that allows a young mathematician like English-born David Mumford, 22, now at Harvard, to pursue this kind of private passion: "At present I am working on ruled surfaces. These offer an accessible but nontrivial example of the pathology of moduli of higher dimensional varieties-a subject whose development is strikingly neglected...