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Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, tried to remind reunioners that for all Harvard's diversity, the College's academic side has not been forgotten. "Our job," he observed, "is to teach, not to preach." And the purpose of liberal education, he continued, is to free us from the sociological prisons in which we find ourselves...
...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...
...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...