Howard Mumford Jones

Life and Orange County connections

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1. February 1927 Howard Mumford Jones opens the Bull's Head Bookshop in Murphey Hall English professor Howard Mumford Jones announced the Bull's Head Book Store, a non-profit shop for modern novels and short stories in his office at 214 Murphey Hall. It later moved to the YMCA building, the ground floor of the university library and, in 1968, the Daniels Building.Search the index · The Tar Heel, February 12, 1927, p. 1
2. July 17, 1929 Summer players stage the Agamemnon of Aeschylus in Kenan Stadium On the evening of July 17, 1929, a company of Chapel Hill people and Wellesley College students staged an adaptation of the Agamemnon of Aeschylus on a stage set on the grass of Kenan Stadium, with Agamemnon arriving in a horse-drawn chariot. The Weekly had called it the first use of the stadium for drama. People: Howard Mumford JonesSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 19, 1929, p. 1
3. May 2 and 3, 1930 Faculty players stage an old melodrama for the county's poor A company of University faculty and townspeople billed as the Imperial Stock Company played the 1880s melodrama 'Thorns and Orange Blossoms' to packed houses in the Playmakers Theatre, with the proceeds above expenses going to the Orange County poor relief fund. Paul Green and Wilbur Daniel Steele were the managers, and Howard Mumford Jones directed and played the villain. People: Paul Green, Howard Mumford JonesThe Chapel Hill Weekly, May 9, 1930, p. 2
4. May 1930 Howard Mumford Jones leaves Chapel Hill for the University of Michigan Howard Mumford Jones, a member of the university's English faculty since coming from the University of Texas in 1925, left for the University of Michigan in 1930 and handed his syndicated book-review column, The Literary Lantern, to Paul Green and his wife. People: Paul GreenIn the index: University of Michigan · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 23, 1930, p. 1
5. by May 23, 1930 Paul Green and his wife take over 'The Literary Lantern' book column Howard Mumford Jones, leaving for the University of Michigan, turned over 'The Literary Lantern', the Chapel Hill column on Southern books carried by a dozen Southern newspapers with about 450,000 readers, to Paul Green and Mrs. Green, whose first column was set for June 8. Addison Hibbard had started the column in 1924. People: Howard Mumford Jones, Addison HibbardSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 23, 1930, p. 1
6. April 18, 1952 Howard Mumford Jones gives the address at the dedication of the university library addition Howard Mumford Jones, a former member of the university's English faculty then at Harvard, gave the principal address, on the library in higher education, at the dedication of the $1.6 million addition to the university library, held in Memorial Hall. People: Robert B (Robert Bingham) Downs, Charles E. RushSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 18, 1952, p. 1
7. May 1965 Howard Mumford Jones wins the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Howard Mumford Jones, who had taught at the University of North Carolina from 1925 to 1930, won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for O Strange New World (1964), a study of American culture from the discovery through the Jacksonian era. He was then retired from Harvard.Search the index · The Harvard Crimson: Howard Mumford Jones Receives A Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction