Word: grovers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charles Frederick Grover '50--the gentleman in question--received front-page treatment this summer because he is a Harvard man, because he attempted an incredible 45-mile swim from Boston to Provincetown, on the tip of Cape Cod, and because he had marital problems to boot...
...Grover entered Harvard in 1946 after military service at a time when freshmen could compete on varsity teams. He was not good enough to swim with the varsity, however, but became captain of the freshman squad apparently because his 24 years impressed his younger classmates...
During the season, Grover compiled a mediocre record as a 440-man and an excellent reputation for telling coaches and team members exactly how things should be run. When he acted even more strongly on this reputation upon his return to College as a sophomore, he was requested to betake himself from the pool and never return...
This climax to his apocryphally "starry" Harvard swimming career came just after he had self-righteously refuted all doubts as to his amateur status. During the previous summer of 1947, a gentleman with somewhat the same name as "Charles Grover" won the professional long distance endurance swimming championship at Lake George. But when his coaches queried him on the subject, Grover disclaimed the similarity. The similarity later proved to be a case of identity...
Following your story on Pastor Crist there is a letter in your Aug. 29 issue by the Rev Grover Bell, who, along with others, challenges the right of any Protestant to judge another based on the right of Protes tants to interpret Scripture as one pleases it is true that most Protestants believe in liberty in interpretation of Scripture However, many of us doubt that the right of interpretation of Scripture includes the right to deny . . . basic doctrines such as the deity of Christ . . . While a man has the right to deny any part of the Bible, I question...