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another, proposed by Roderick Firth, Alford Professor of Natural Religion. Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, would order officers of instruction to "schedule academic exercises [exams, etc.] for the fall term in a way that will not penalize students who are absent
...surprised state troopers on hand tried desperately to protect the children, as screaming whites began smashing the bus windows with ax handles, bricks, heavy chains and sharpened screwdrivers. They repeatedly tried to get at the youngsters who were cowering inside. The student driver of one bus, Henry Alford, 18, struggled to hold the door closed. "Most of the kids were girls, and they were scared and crying," Alford said. "The boys made the girls get down on the floor and the boys stood in a circle around them to protect them from the glass." Several children were...
...Council also elected Roderick Firth, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, to serve on the Council for this semester as a replacement for Zeph Stuart, professor of Greck and Latin, who is on sabbatical...
Building Belief. Depression is most likely to afflict the wives of servicemen if they think that their husband's absence is pointless. Navy Rear Admiral John M. Alford, a personnel expert who conducted a recent one-year survey of Navy life, says that when the tone of a husband's letters about his work changes from eagerness to boredom, wives swing from resolution to discouragement. So far, no systematic study has been made on the effects of wifely missives. New Haven Psychiatrist Houston Macintosh found that the spouses of Air Force men, virtually all of whom volunteer...
Born at Smyrna, Asia Minor, Demos spent his early years in Constantinople, and earned an A.B. degree in 1910 from Anatolia College in Marsovan. He came to the United States in 1913, studied at Harvard where he earned a Ph.D., and joined the Harvard faculty in 1916. He became Alford Professor...