Word: chaderton
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...glance at Emmanuel of the seventeenth century throws interesting light on the influences acting and reacting upon the contemporary "younger generation." Founded ostensibly to train orthodox ministers, Emmanuel tended more and more to rear Puritans and Calvinists. Chaderton, its first master, while maintaining his connection with the Church of England, was one of the most respected and most powerful supporters of the Puritan ideals. So eloquent and absorbing were his sermons that at the end of one two-hour session, he was greeted by shouts of "For God's sake, sir, go on, go on," from his student audience...
...rate, when John Harvard entered Emmanuel, the king's regulations had been in force for some time and many of the colleges were beginning to show perceptible High Church tinge. But Emmanuel, due to the influence mainly of Chaderton, who still lived there though no longer master, was strongly non-conformist; all the decadent wits of the time rail at "pure Emmanuel". It held itself aloof from the rest of the University, and kept its own council and habits. When the other colleges accepted the inevitable and worshipped according to the king's command. Emmanuel alone refused to conform...
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