Word: firth
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Hard by the Firth of Clyde, the 84-year-old Troon course has the teeth of a tiger and the temperament of a capricious shrew. It was at Troon in the 1923 British Open that 21-year-old Gene Sarazen, cocky 1922 U.S. Open champion, teed off into a howling gale sweeping in unannounced from the slate-grey firth, shot a horrendous 85, and caught the next boat home. Even in the sunniest of weather, the championship 7,045-yd. course is a clutching jungle of harsh gorse, spiny Scotch broom and impenetrable whin bushes. Ditchlike burns and sheerfaced bunkers...
...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...
...Firth's studies have centered on the theory of knowledge, and on ethics. He has been on the Faculty nine years, and became a full professor...
...Roderick Firth, professor of Philosophy and chairman of the Department, expressed his great regrets at having to discontinue Phil 1a, calling it "one of the University's famous courses." He explained the difficulty partly by the fact that the philosophy department uses the members of its permanent staff as tutors, thus giving them less available time, and partly by the yearly changes in staff members. The department "is certainly going to make every effort" to reinstate the course by 1963-4, he said. He suggested that this might be done by sharing the job among a number of faculty members...