Word: puritan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...classroom, glowering affably at any student who wastes drawing paper or sits a few inches out of line from the other students. Occasionally he stops to drop a sardonic remark or to redraw, in heavy accurate lines, an improperly pitched shoulder or a badly proportioned leg. Something of a Puritan, Bridgman has only recently permitted nude models in mixed classes of men & women. He treats the human body as solemnly and abstractly as an engineering problem. "Anatomically," he says, "there's not much difference between a man and a horse...
Colonel Henry Bowen, the founder of the family fortune, was a half-crazy, atheistic, marauding Welsh adventurer who abandoned his Puritan wife to take part in Cromwell's invasion of Ireland...
Thrills at Paragon Park and sunburns at the beach await those going to Nantasket with the Outing Club all day Saturday. On Sunday all members of the University are invited to see the Puritan Hub city from a horse drawn omnibus. Inquiries about these trips should be made at the Summer School Office, Wadsworth...
After combining the legislative and executive control of the College in one group, the Puritan fathers later established a separate body to have the final control over policies. The Board of Overseers, a group of 30 alumni chosen for five years from those who have held their degrees for five or more years, holds ultimate veto power over all the Corporation's decisions. Seven times a year the Overseers meet in solemn conclave to approve (almost as a matter of course) the actions of the President and Fellows...
Whittier, who is a bloodhound of no mean repute in Puritan circles, wrote the famed actress and sent flowers; much to his surprise and joy, "her secretary" called him the next day and arranged for a private luncheon at a hotel in Boston...