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...Howard Mumford Jones, Lowell Professor of Humanities Emeritus and dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 1934 to 1944, died in mid-May. He was renowned as one of the leading scholars of all aspects of American culture...
DIED. Howard Mumford Jones, 88, Pulitzer-prize winning historian of American culture who taught at Harvard for nearly three decades; in Cambridge, Mass. The Michigan-born scholar, whose 40 books included plays, poetry, essays and biographies, was best known for the trilogy that began in 1964 with O Strange New World and hailed the U.S. as the first nation "to be created on philosophic assumptions." The field of American studies, argued Jones at a time when European cultural history was still dominant on U.S. campuses, is "one of the most demanding disciplines" and "not for the C mind...
...Energy entertained a crowd of 200,000. Jackson Browne and company will keep the machinery of dissent from running on empty by raising money with benefit concerts. But the members of the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility are supplying much of the movement's intellectual firepower. Among them are Lewis Mumford, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, and four Nobel Laureates: Linus Pauling; James D. Watson; George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus; and Harold Urey...
...John Harvard, Thomas Hollis, Isaac Watts, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Eliot Norton, Haward Mumford Jones, and an enormous host of others nad not thought it worthwhile for an educated person to form a private library, there would not now be at Harvard ready access for students and professors to what you correctly call "one of the best and biggest library systems in the world." Just look at the bookplates in many of the books you use in that system and you should quickly see that its existence does not represent some kind of bibliographical parthenogenesis...
...point, the Rev. Bob Mumford, a nondenominational evangelist from California, halted his speech at the Arrowhead Stadium, where the Kansas City Chiefs play football, and called time out for "a Holy Ghost break." He began to shout: "Glory to God! Jesus is Lord." The audience rose and joined in. The Scoreboard flashed JESUS IS LORD and then displayed an illuminated portrait of Christ. As the excitement built, a gurgling sound rose from the audience: "Ye ked ee aky shangda." The Charismatics were celebrating the New Testament-period practice of glossolalia, or speaking in tongues...