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Though Jones spent only the last seven years of his academic career at Stanford, his name is closely associated with it. Stanford's Jones Room, a meeting and reading room for students in Stanford's creative writing program, is named for both Richard Foster Jones, who established the program, and his
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in 1919 and remained at that school until 1945, by which time he had risen to the position of Dean of the Graduate School. He retired from teaching in 1952 but continued his research and publishing until near the end of his life.
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brother, Dr. E. H. Jones, who financed the program's establishment and whose E. H. Jones Endowment has been the primary source of the grants provided to recipients of the program's
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Ancients and Moderns: A Study of the Rise of the Scientific Movement in Seventeenth-Century England, St. Louis: Washington University Studies, 1936. Second edition, 1961.
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before it closed, and who then established in its former building the Thomas Arnold High School, a private academy which he headed from 1890 until 1913.
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The Seventeenth Century: Studies in the History of English Thought and Literature from Bacon to Pope. Stanford University Press, 1951, (with others)
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of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be
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Ancients and Moderns: A Study of the Background of The Battle of the Books. St. Louis: Washington University Studies, 1936.
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Bacon, Francis. Essays, Advancement of Learning, New Atlantis and Other Pieces. New York: Odyssey Press, 1937, editor
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Article on Wallace Stegner noting the establishment of the Stanford creative writing program
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PDF of a memorial resolution issued by Stanford University on Professor Jones' death
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Following his graduation from his father's school, Jones attended the
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Triumph of the English Language. Stanford University Press, 1953.
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