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Born in 1605 in Towcester, England, Shepard received his A. B. from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and became an ordained deacon, later priest. As an occasional lecturer on religious matters he was in 1630 silenced for non-conformity by Laud, the Bishop of London. He was not allowed to speak publicly henceforth in England because of the example set by Laud, and so in 1634 he set sail for Boston, but was driven back by a storm and remained in hiding in Kingland until the next year, when he sailed again, reaching his destination October...
...have numerous dogs and one of them is called Ernest, for the Hemingway whom you so laud...
From the earliest days, when Archbishop Laud threatened the very existence of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, there have been obstacles in the path of Harvard's progress. Whenever possible, the College has adapted itself to the changing conditions of national life and so guided its development that there have always been new fields ahead in which it might play the role, as Mr. Conant phrases it, of "innovator and pacemaker." But when the conditions have been such that they menaced Harvard's existence in any form, the College has not been too proud to fight...
...hrer and the party members to Nurnberg, Streicher's own stamping ground. And as is traditional, Hitler did not address the first session, instead sat messiah-like on the haupttribüne while rasping-voiced Adolf Wagner, Munich Nazi leader, read the Fuhrer's Proclamation. Nazis laud the Proclamation as the coming year's party program, indicating in vague generalities the German course in foreign, internal affairs...
...Wolff, Harvard '29, magna cum laud in anthropology, set up his school in Beck Hall in 1930, but soon had to move to bigger quarters. Large and generally unshaven, he shouts his lectures, throws erassers at sleepy students tells stories about Peter his pet champanzee and despite official disapproval--gets most of Harvard's patronage...