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...Howard Mumford Jones, George Wald, and Thomas Gold graphically demonstrated the gap between the sciences and the humanities in last night's Law School Forum Lowell lecture hall...
...field of concentration was American History and Literature, but he was much more interested in literature than in history, and was particularly passionate about fiction, both as a reader and a writer of it. Every year he took a course in short story writing. He studied under Howard Mumford Jones and Arthur M. Schleshinger, Jr., under Raphael Demos and John L. Finley. His grades were respectable: A's and B's, mostly B's, and just a sprinkling...
...were placed in the middle of the huge halls. Eventually, to get more revenue for the railroad, advertising signs with blinking lights were hung from the walls, stainless steel booths and shops appeared, new cars were spotlighted on revolving turn tables. The inside of Penn Station became what Lewis Mumford calls "a vast electronic jukebox...
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...