Word: columba
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pilgrim's Progress. i. e., the discovery of America by the Irish saint Columba...
...disposal of the Columba myth illustrates admirably the methods of the expert archaeologists and the ineluctable force of their deductions. They examined in detail the large collegiate buildings (probably monastic) of Newhaven and Cambridge and compared them with similar institutions in or near Europe. It had been hitherto assumed that this phase of American architecture was a product of the Catholic revival of the twentieth century, but such hasty conclusions must now be discarded, for the magnificent Gothic ruins at Newhaven indubitably attest the existence of a flourishing scholastic culture as early as the first years of the fifteenth century...
...this single building be proved, the whole case for Columba and Irish cultural hegemone falls to the ground; and there can be no possible doubt that the combined proofs of the expedition will satisfy the most skeptical or most prejudiced minds. The chemists have left no stone untreated and have found that the deposits and corrosions of several centuries clearly differentiate the stonework of the monastery from the later structures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which were built around the venerable tower of the great mother-pile. Corroborative evidence, if it were necessary, can be produced from Cambridge, which...
...Archibald Fleming of St. Columba's Church, a close friend of the Earl of Balfour, says of the impending visit of the King to the Pope: 'It is purely an act of courtesy, and if the King visited Rome without going to the Vatican it would certainly be an act of discourtesy to millions of his loyal subjects all over the Empire...
Though chiefly concerned with primary and secondary schools their suggestion applies equally well to colleges. Last fall there was a movement to introduce "civics" or practical politics into the universities, and at that time Williams and Dartmouth started such courses. A few days ago Columba announced the first lecture in its course "Practical Politics", in which leaders of both parties, and other men actively engaged in politics are to be lecturers. An attempt will be made to "introduce the student to the realities of political life". The machinery of political clubs, district leadership and legislation will be carefully studied...