Word: calvinists
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Curiously, the she-soldiers seemed to have aroused the least disapproval in the male. The Calvinist Lady Ann Cunningham was a formidable warrior for Scotland, riding at the head of a troop of horses with a case of pistols attached to her saddle and daggers at her girdle. It was the "learned woman" that terrified both the learned and unlearned men around her. The prevailing opinion, according to the 17th century writer Hannah Woolley, found that a woman was "learned ... enough if she can distinguish her Husband's bed from another...
Much of the controversy centered on religion. The College, first a Puritan Seminary, became enmeshed in pitched theological battles as other denominations won seats on the governing boards. At the end of the 17th century, President Increase Mather fought unsuccessfully to turn the College into a Calvinist seminary. He failed, but after King William III nullified the College Charter in 1697, the debate began in the legislature. Mather continued to try to block non-Congregationalists from serving on the Corporation but still failed to have his wishes put in writing. Ultimately he was forced to resign...
...aimed at corralling students--but rather a well-thought-out program to keep the roads free of intoxicated motorists. "We don't want to put people in jail," Ducks said. "We're not saying that after a game you can't get a beer, we're not returning to Calvinist ideals. But when you have a beer, don't get behind the wheel...
...complicated that it seems easier to tell than summarize. But De Vries is only half kidding. The fine cutting edge of his comic vision comes, as always, from the sense that there is hell to pay. The author, a resident staffer at The New Yorker, was raised a Dutch Calvinist, and he is a past master at striking antithetical poses. He is at once the liberal humanist, tolerantly condoning free expression and yearnings of the flesh; he is also the hooded inquisitor, meting out appropriate punishment whenever anyone tries to have a little...
...discussions with the Rt. Rev. John Mclntyre, the titular head (Moderator) of the Church of Scotland-the first time that a Pope had met Scotland's leading Protestant on Scottish soil. The meeting occurred in the shadow of the stern gaze of a statue of 16th century Calvinist Reformer John Knox, who once said, "The venom and malice of Satan reigneth in all Papists." Mclntyre seemed unintimidated by the setting: "If you are concerned at all for the unity of the church in Scotland, where we have a very bad record," he said, "it is a very significant event...