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Weekdays, the Pilgrims looked like any other Englishmen: wearing the rich browns or the Lincoln greens then popular in their homeland. Governor Bradford even had a red vest and William Brewster a violet coat. The traditional dour grays and blacks were principally for Sundays. Their observance of the gloomy Sunday, however, was a practice not without its perils. Since the Pilgrims believed that a baby born on a Sunday had been conceived on a Sunday, preachers thundered when a woman gave birth on a Sunday. One preacher stopped such harangues after his own wife gave birth to twins during...
Swift Punishment. The Pilgrims were certainly not opposed to sex: families were large, and widowers remarried quickly, sometimes within weeks of a wife's death. But aberrations were punished swiftly and, in at least one case, with terrible severity. During 1642, reported Bradford, "even sodomie and bugerie (things fearfull to name) have broak forth in this land, oftener than once." One hapless boy of "16 or 17," having confessed to bestiality with "a mare, a cowe, two goats, five sheep, two calves and a turkey," was tried by jury and executed, but not before such animals as he could...
...rule of thumb, girls carrying over 15 pounds of books are law students and girls with false eyelashes are interlopers from Lesley College. . . . Don't be snobbish! perfectly nice girls go to Simmons, Bradford Jr. College, etc. . . ." - Unofficial Guide to Graduate Life at Harvard...
...four observers, with instructions to record their comments after each meeting: how things went, why things went wrong, etc. The conferees insisted that they be allowed to participate in these postmortems. "What happened was that they found the feedback more exciting than the actual event -the conference," says Leland Bradford, former executive director of N.T.L...
...N.T.L. began applying the feedback process to what has become an entirely new educational approach: the T group. Uninstructed and agendaless, the group begins to coalesce in a highly charged emotional atmosphere. At first, group members are reserved, but eventually they remove their social masks. Says Bradford: "People come as lonely people -we're all lonely people-and find they can finally share with somebody. One statement I've heard 300 or 400 times from T-group members is, 'You know, I know you people better than people I've worked with for 30 years...