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Demos, who taught at Harvard from 1919 to 1962, was Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Policy, emeritus. For many years, he taught a lower-level course in "Philosophy from Plato to William James." He was editor of "Complete Works of Plato" in 1936, and author of "The Philosophy of Plato...
...feel pangs of Protestant responsibility brought on by the recent abdication of the Londoners. A group of Bostonians in 1787 established the present foundation to take up the work dropped by the London Society. A typical contributor to the new Society for Propagating the Gospel was one Colonel Alford, who, according to the executor of his will, "was desireous the Aborigines should be both civilized and christianized; that the Gospel should be sent into the dark, benighted parts of the land...
Roderick Firth, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, attacked U.S. involvement in Vietnam before an audience of 175 students and Faculty members in Memorial Church yesterday...
...rushed down the hall to the noisy newsroom of the Memphis Commercial Appeal. He was apparently unaware that A.P.'s Photographer Jack Thornell had already reached a phone, and that at 4:29 Memphis time A.P. had sent off its first bulletin, which simply reported the shooting. Alford was still desperately trying to catch up, and when an Appeal reporter called with an account of what had happened, the A.P. man picked up an extension to listen in. "Meredith has been shot in the back and the head," the reporter said. In the clamor, Alford thought he heard "Meredith...
Without checking with anyone else in the room, Alford moved the false news. At 4:33, A.P. sent a bulletin to its 8,500 members reporting that Meredith was dead-and 21 minutes later a fuller paragraph went out, repeating that Meredith had been killed from ambush. For a little more than half an hour the blunder stood. Finally Alford asked an Appeal staffer: "You do have Meredith dead, don't you?" And at 5:08, A.P. got off the overdue correction bulletin...