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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...
...Play. Historically, the Continental Army had its Golgotha in the winter of 1780 at Morristown, N. J. But the hardships endured at Valley Forge, two winters before, are popularly supposed to have enveloped the new nation's darkest hour. Equipment and supplies there were in plenty. But transport had completely broken down. Technically, General William Howe and his Red Coats were bottled up in Philadelphia, but Washington's little army of freedom was depleted by more than seasonal desertions. There were no victories. Trenton, Princeton and Saratoga were many months behind. Chased from one meeting place to another, a harried...
...Germanic legionaries played a role in the life of the Master. ... On the sorrowful way to Golgotha the leader of the cohorts is seized with such compassion for the Master as He breaks down that he requisitions Simon of Cyrene to carry the cross...
...Biblical Editor suggests for our Boat House the name "Golgotha, - the place of a skull...