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to the United States specifically to improve his education, having read all the books available to him at home. Arriving in Boston in 1913 without money, he first worked as a waiter in a restaurant and then as a janitor in the
Harvard student halls of residence in order to fund his tuition at the
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asking whether King had ever been a student of his at
Harvard. King replied to say that he had attended the university for two years as a special student and taken Demos's course on the Philosophy of Plato in 1952–53 for which he had received a B from Demos. Coincidentally, King's wife,
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university. He studied under
Bertrand Russell, who was temporarily at Harvard, and Russell found Demos to be one of his best students and was impressed by his enthusiasm for philosophy which he found refreshing. Demos obtained his PhD in 1916 for a dissertation titled
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in 1928–29. In 1934, Demos lectured on Plato's social program, arguing that
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by missionaries and had become an evangelical minister. Demos was brought up in
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with his wife since 1967, teaching on a university year in Athens course. His papers relating to
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