Word: alford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first of these, "Harvard Undergraduate--1954," will take place at 10 a.m. in New Lecture Hall. Wilbur J. Bender, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aids, Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, Thomas D. Bolles, Director of Athletics, Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, and Eliott Perkins, lecturer in History and Master of Lowell House, will speak. The moderator will be Charles W. Duhig, Director of Student Personnel at Brandies University...
Always in the Philosophy Department, Demos rose to a full professorship in 1945, when he succeeded Josiah Royce as Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity. He comments about his professorship, "It is such a long title, I have to look it up to get it straight." Not restricting himself solely to philosophy, he has written several articles on the development of the "whole man" at colleges, and was one of the pioneers of the present General Education program at Harvard...
MARINE TECHNICAL SERGEANT ALFORD LEE MCLAUGHLIN, 25, of Rome, Ga.: ". . . Although painfully wounded, he bravely fired the machine guns from the hip until his hands became blistered . . . accounting for an estimated 150 enemy dead and 50 wounded...
...investigators that he acted only out of 1) simple humanity, or 2) a country boy's bewilderment at the big city, or 3) deference to orders from above. Last week Caudle was back before a House subcommittee to explain why he dropped a tax case against one Isadore Alford of Nashville in 1950. This time the Congressmen thought they might have a lead to a fourth motive-influence-when they popped a blunt question: Wasn't it true that Lamar had been taken on a duck hunt, and thus influenced, by Alford's attorney...
...gone on the duck hunt-but that he definitely had not been influenced. It was, he said, a "messed-up" duck hunt. The weather was cold, he didn't like to kill ducks, he had no heavy clothing-and he only agreed to go because "the brethren" (including Alford's attorney) had made all the preparations...