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Perhaps it was the influence of a pretty woman in the days when women were few in the Bay Colony, possibly it was Anne Hutchinson's reputation as the best mid-wife in New England, or it may have been a natural revolt from the overly-strict Calvinist doctrines of the Puritans that was responsible for the growth of a sect which was nearly successful in gaining control of the legislature. On that control rested the fate of Harvard, for learning was a thing to be abhorred as from the Devil. It could only lead to confusion, and, never having...
...close friend, flocked to her banner and supported her crusade against the whole ministry. Her party became so large that the General Court feared the result of the coming election and moved to the Cambridge Common, then eight miles from Boston, in the correct belief that some of the Hutchinson party would not take the day off to cast their ballot...
...close vote the Conservatives were placed in power and immediately banished Mrs. Hutchinson to Rhode Island to commune with the Devil and the Indians, and then took up the unfinished business of erecting a building for the college which had been voted two years previously...
...Hutchinson of Bowdoin carried of the individual laurels of the day, placing first in the four and one half mile race after a hard duel with John Irving of New Hampshire. The Wildcats won the team title...
...King, preparing to abdicate, wraps up his crown. Happiness Ahead (Warner). When Warner Brothers announced last summer that they had discovered an ingenue who would be "one of the five biggest stars of the screen within a year," it was surprising to learn that their discovery was Josephine Hutchinson. A thin, pretty girl with red dish hair, sherry-colored eyes and a dimpled chin, Josephine Hutchinson had been exposed to the full view of Hollywood scouts for upwards of eight years as leading lady of Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre on Manhattan's 14th Street...