Word: christers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colleges, pious students are known as "Christers." It is their martyrly lot to be ribbed occasionally by their irreverent fellows. At Dartmouth College a Christer who did not take ribbing calmly was Harrington Kenneth Gates, nicknamed "Heavenly." Once, in the college library, Heavenly Gates with powerful fists ripped up a copy of Freethinker Tom Paine's Common Sense which someone handed him. Once he turned in tortured fury on a football player who said: "Say, Heavenly, if you've got any pull with God, tell him to stop this rain...
Last fortnight Christer Gates entered upon a spiritual scrimmage, a gridiron Golgotha which last week would have attained a "Stover at Yale" quality but for the fact that practically everyone at Dartmouth-the dean, the football team, the coach, the college publicity office-behaved toward Gates with the utmost sympathy. In his room, a few nights before the Yale game, had appeared a white-clad figure who said: "I am the Lord, and I command you to play football with Dartmouth...
...failed to have only one orchestra instead of two hired for the spring lawn party, outlawed gambling in the chapter house, opposed motions to install a stein rack and to discontinue "Dr. Wilbur's Bible lessons." No niggard, however, Alf Landon gave the fraternity a cuspidor. No "Christer," he downed his beer with other members of Theta Nu Epsilon, oldtime campus drinking society. In his one year of academic study and three years of law, Alf Landon's prime avocation was the workings of fraternity and campus politics, which he mastered so thoroughly that fellow students, nicknamed...
Last week Author Wilder surprised many a critic, pleased many a reader. Heaven's My Destination came home and up-to-date with a vengeance. The story of an earnest young U. S. christer's misadventures, it was an able translation of the Wilder talent into current American prose. Instead of Tanagra figurines or Spanish silhouets, the characters were animated U. S. cartoons, drawn with so subtle a line that they seemed more lifelike than comic. As usual in a Wilder story, the philosophic implications were hardly noticeable in the smooth façade of the story...
...genuinely religious as Elliott Speer was when he entered the drinking, carousing Princeton of Scott Fitzgerald was to be cynically labeled a "Christer." At that time his Princetonian father. Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, world-traveled senior secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, was at the height of his fame as the most powerfully emotional preacher of his day. Classmates who met Elliott Speer five years out of college found an affable young man no less religious but well-geared to his own generation. Northfield quickly felt his liberalizing touch. He allowed his boys to smoke, to have parties...