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Capturing the title strengthened Kirkland's lead in the Straus Trophy race, upping the Deacon total by 115 points to 896. Lowell is second with 856 points, and Eliot is third with...
...Deacon's Domain...
Energy is not altogether spent outside, however. That Kirkland should excell in that nebulous thing called "House spirit" is due more than anything else to the interest. Deacons take in their domain. The bi-monthly concerts of chamber music in the Common Room have become well known in the University. Ond the Deacon's Testament has achieved fame as the only House yearbook...
Arrowsmith Adverse. Aaron's father was a deacon in the Congregational Church, and smuggled runaway slaves to Canada, but when Aaron befriended a runaway dog, the old man blew its head off with a shotgun. Aaron's girl was Nadine, a Catholic in the town of Adams, "a cotton-mill hand by day, but by evening a plump, wriggling, rolling, rejoicing, inviting, shoulder-shaking, cooing, laughing, black-eyed, black-haired, black-tempered young woman, who loved all that was bright and shoddy and loud, and loved all males...
...deeper difficulty is that the world around Aaron Gadd never seems to be the world of 1848. Doubtless there were revivalists as blunt as the Reverend Mr. Chippler, missionaries as self-seeking as Balthazar Harge and theologians as long-winded as Deacon Popplewood. But there were others, too. Whatever else Americans had or lacked 100 years ago, a belief in God was fundamental to most of them. In The God-Seeker, except for Aaron Gadd, Author Lewis leaves it only to Babbitts in frock coats...