At U. S. colleges, pious students are known as "Christers." It is their martyrly lot to be ribbed occasionally by their irreverent fellows. At Dartmouth College a Christer who did not take ribbing calmly was Harrington Kenneth Gates, nicknamed "Heavenly." Once, in the college library, Heavenly Gates with powerful fists ripped up a copy of Freethinker Tom Paine's Common Sense which someone handed him. Once he turned in tortured fury on a football player who said: "Say, Heavenly, if you've got any pull with God, tell him to stop this rain."
Beefy, intense-looking Harrington...
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