Education
Gingrich attended the Northeast High School in Philadelphia. He obtained the Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Lafayette College in 1923. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa while at the school. After doing research work at the University of Pennsylvania from 1923 to 1925, he went to the University of Chicago where he received his Master’s and Doctorate degrees in 1927 and 1932 respectively. Gingrich’s doctoral dissertation was entitled Paul’s Ethical Vocabulary, a treatise on the language and style of Saint Paul’s letters.
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