Word: gospeleer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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David W. Balley '21, Secretary to the Corporation, said last night that he had found no authenticity for the legend, though he admitted he had accepted it as "gospel" when an undergraduate. Bailey said that he had spoken to Clifford K. Shipton, Custodian of the University Archives who is editing Sibley's "Harvard Graduates," and Shipton has said there was nothing in the official records or in the terms under which the Boylston Chair was set up that would substantiate the bovine fable...
...series of articles on the challenging theme, "Can Protestantism Win America?"* This week, in the second installment, came a startling if partial answer: "Protestantism has given no convincing evidence that, in its present state, it is able to . . . awaken a vital response to the realities of the Christian gospel...
...requirements for admission were likewise severe when placed alongside the present College Boards. The University catalogue of 1840 reads, "To be received into the Freshman Class, the candidate must be thoroughly acquainted with the Grammar of the Latin and Greek languages, . . . be able to construe and parse from the Gospel in the Greek Testament, Virgil, Sallust, Cicero, . . . and to translate from English to Latin correctly...
Sawdust Trail. In Medford, Ore., Army Lieut. Hugh Collins' parrot Snafu, sent to jail for habitual bad language, turned over a new leaf, croaked snatches of old-time Gospel hymns...
...speed. He has already completed, for Fox release, a Nazi spy chase called Rendezvous 24. While not strictly an atom-bomb picture, it deals with German scientists who tried to blow up Paris by radio-controlled atomic energy. It may conceivably pass, in the sticks, for the veritable atomic gospel...