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To the outside world, it's Harvard University, not Harvard College, that counts.

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If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Howard Mumford Jones

Howard Mumford Jones

Born: April 16, 1892
Died: May 11, 1980 (aged 88)
Bio: Howard Mumford Jones was an American intellectual historian, literary critic, journalist, poet, and professor of English at Harvard University.
Known for:
  1. The age of energy (1971)
  2. America And French Culture 1750-1848 (1927)
  3. Revolution & romanticism (1974)
  4. Gargoyles and Other Poems (1918)
  5. Ideas in America (1944)

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