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...meeting sponsored by the Harvard Student Defense League, Lewis Mumford, author of several recent publications and consulting editor of the "New Republic," and Ralph Barton Perry '29, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, will speak on the "Challenge to America" tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in Emerson...
Among the signers of this resolution were such prominent names as : President Ada L. Comstock of Radcliffe College; James M. Landis, dean of the Harvard Law School; Harold M. Westergaard, dean of the Graduate School of Engineering; and Professors W. Y. Elliott, Sidney B. Fay, Bruce C. Hopper, Howard Mumford Jones, S. E. Morison, Bliss Perry, and A. E. Schlesinger...
LONG before the publication of "The Flowering of New England" and "New England: Indian Summer," Van Wyck Brooks was attacking American literature for failing to realize its potentialities. "In these days," Lewis Mumford once wrote, "Mr. Brooks was the first to announce that we had still to use its earth and its sky and the experience that lay between them in the creation of American art and thought." Returning to his capacity as critic rather than historian, Brooks here attacks the prevalent cynicism and defeatism in our contemporary writing...
...influence, certainly through the cynicism and disillusionment caused by the World War, modern writers like Hemingway, Eliot, O'Neill, and Dreiser are primarily concerned with pointing out that "life is a dark little pocket." Brooks appeals for more of the Homeric mood, for writers like Robert Frost and Lewis Mumford, genuine idealists who have an appreciation of human nature and the heroic aspects of life...
...Howard Mumford Jones: Poetry Readings...