Word: gaelicism
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Friends of Scotland apparently intend to carry out no reprisals for the traditional Scotchman's reluctance to part with his cash. Plans have been formed by the American loan Society to raise a ten million dollar fund for the establishment of a Gaelic University in the Scottish Highlands. The university's chief function would be to preserve the Gaelic language and culture...
...customs persevere naturally, they add something worthwhile to the interest and beauty in the world. Stimulated artificially, they savor of dilettantism. The proposed university of Inverness would be an excellent thing as a general liberal arts college, not as a source of propaganda for Gaelic dialects. The expenditure of ten million dollars simply for the preservation of the picturesque and quaint can hardly be justified...
...North Uist in the Outer Hebrides, it is stormbound for eight months of the year. No trees can grow there, no cats can live there, no horses, no rabbits, no rats. The St. Kildans (a population of 30 to 100 has lived there for centuries) speak nothing but Gaelic, do not bother to shear their wild sheep but pull the wool out by the fistful. They live on potatoes and sea birds. In winter, when the island is inaccessible, the St. Kildans maintained communication with the outside world by means of "sea messages." Letters placed in strong wooden boxes were...
College of Propaganda. Last week the Pope attended graduation exercises in the 300-year-old College of Propaganda in Rome. The college, alma mater of polyglot gospellers, produced for the Pope's edification graduation speeches in 25 tongues and dialects. Among them: Sanskrit, Hebrew, Chaldean, Japanese, Siamese, Kaffir, Gaelic, Rumanian, Magyar. Said the Pope: he was pleased that God had glorified all these tongues...
...apse behind the lines. There they sing songs of war-not bawdy ditties or rousing marches, but strange and awesome chants. This lyricism, now solo, now antiphonal, now choral, is a poetic, formalized utterance. The diction is abominable-words can only be guessed at-but the import of these Gaelic spirituals can be felt. Mystic and throbbing, they express the soldiers' gruesome mission and man's revolt from the ghastliness he has made for himself...