The Post debunks my high school's rumors
If there was a book just about debunking Gonzaga rumors, I'd buy it in a second. Or we need a Snopes. In "John Kelly's Washington" today:
Tim Fitzmaurice wrote to say: "As all good alums of Gonzaga College High School on North Capitol and Eye know, part of Tiber Creek runs underneath its old gym. In fact there is a hatch/manhole in the old gym that supposedly goes right down to the creek."
Thomas Clifford, the rector of the Jesuit community at Gonzaga (and a historian), poured cold water on that notion. Although the old gym has been known to flood — and there is a sump pump underneath — the main course of the Tiber was well to the east of the school.
November 1st, 2009 at 2:48 PM
Tiber or not, good place for a classical education
November 1st, 2009 at 6:06 PM
Indeed. We love our Latin so much that our rumors appropriate its geography.