Word: gookin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...politically. The General Court of that year passed an act "for prevention of irregularities and abuse to the authority of this country by the printing press," ordering that "henceforth no copie shall be printed but by, the allowance first had and obtained under the hands of Captain Daniel Gookin and Mr. Jonathan Mitchel, until this court shall take further order therein." At this time Harvard's was the only printing plant in the country, composed of the original Glover press plus one bought by the College itself. This act of the Court was repealed the following year, showing that...