Jefferson, Howard B. (Howard Bonar), 1901-1983 (Personal Name)

Experience, reason and faith, c1940: t.p. (Howard Bonar Jefferson)

OCLC, Feb. 14, 2003 (hdg.: Jefferson, Howard Bonar, 1901- ; predominant usage: Howard B. Jefferson; usage: Howard Bonar Jefferson)

American Antiquarian Society, via WWW, December 11, 2015 (Howard Bonar Jefferson; known as Jeff; born on September 28, 1901 in Norwalk, Ohio; he attended Denison University, where he earned his A.B. degree in 1923; he went on to his first position as director of athletics for Hillsdale College in Michigan from 1923 to 1925; Jeff's first college teaching position in 1929, after receiving his doctorate in philosophy from Yale in that year, was at Colgate University, where he not only taught philosophy and rose to the rank of professor, but served also as assistant dean and acting director of admissions from 1943 to 1945; in 1945-1946 he worked as director of the Colgate School of Philosophy and Religion; he served as the third president of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts from 1946 to 1967; besides serving as university president, Jeff was also a writer and author; he published two hooks: The God of Ethical Religion (1933) and Experience and the Christian Faith (1942); he coauthored four other books: Experience, Reason and Faith (1940); The American Idea (1942); The Vitality of the Christian Tradition (1944); and The Teaching of Religion in Amnerican Higher Educatioin (1951); he was elected to membership in the American Antiquarian Society in April 1953 and attended meetings regularly until 1980 when ill health began restricting his activities; Jeff died in Worcester on October 1, 1983)