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Faubus is running in the primaries against five other Democrats, and the two who are giving him trouble are both old Faubus allies. One is moderate Sid Mc-Math, Governor from 1949 to 1953, who broke with Faubus over the Little Rock episode; the other is Congressman Dale Alford, a strong segregationist who had filed for his candidacy under the impression that Faubus would not run (Faubus' ulcer was kicking up) and is now campaigning against Faubus' long incumbency and against integration as well. Caught between the two, Faubus shrewdly decided to chuck segregation as a dead issue...
Common to all of them is long devotion to the goal set by that gentle needier, Raphael Demos, 70, holder of Harvard's imposing Alford professorship of natural religion, moral philosophy and civil polity (one predecessor: Josiah Royce). The goal: to plumb "who we are, what we know, and how we know it." A Greek immigrant who worked his way through Harvard as janitor of the Lampoon building, Christian Platonist (The Philosophy of Plato) Demos roiled Cambridge with Socratic questioning for 45 years. The aim of education, he argued, after Socrates, is to become more human by learning...
Retired from the Alford Professorship of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity he is teaching Phil lb this summer...
Roderick Firth will become the ninth Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, President Pusey has announced. He succeeds Raphael Demos, who is retiring...
...appointment of Firth, currently chairman of the Department of Philosophy, is effective July 1. Among his predecessors since the Alford chair was established in 1817 have been James Walker (later President of the University), Francis Bowen, George Herbert Palmer, Josiah Royce, and William Ernest Hocking...