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...Puritan through and through, Mather saw Harvard as a training ground for Congregational ministers. But he went unsupported in his attempt to insert a clause into the college charter that required future presidents to be orthodox New England Congregationalists. Mather’s attempted sacrifice of the college’s well-being for his own personal beliefs was characteristic of an earlier view of leadership. But changes were...
...American than Betty Suarez. On ABC's hit comedy-soap Ugly Betty, she's a fashion-magazine assistant who is distinctly unfashionable--chunky sweaters, frizzy hair, bear-trap braces--but succeeds through good old Yankee values like perseverance, optimism and hard work. Smart and sweet-hearted, she embodies the Puritan-Shaker-Quaker principle of valuing inner good over outer appearance. She's as Norman Rockwell as a chestnut-stuffed turkey. The actress who plays her is even named America Ferrera...
...Blood” updates Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic text “The Scarlet Letter.” Running this past weekend at the Agassiz Theatre, the play explores the modern stigma of being a mother of illegitimate children.Strict Puritan mores are replaced with the doctrine of personal responsibility and the disdain for welfare mothers. Hester Prynne is transformed into Hester La Negrita (Jenné B. Ayers ’10), an illiterate homeless mother of five who lives on the fringes of society, under a bridge. Instead of being forced to wear a scarlet...
...Harvard students, at least according to those involved in the production. Parks takes the social commentary of Hawthorne’s original one step further: while “In the Blood” is still very much a meditation on themes such as guilt, adultery, and other dusty Puritan affairs, the play also extends and ruminates on a range of modern ills, including poverty, homelessness, and the exploitation of those less fortunate. “When [many Harvard students] hear about certain challenges people face, it’s hard for them to relate with that person if they...
...biggest problem by far with having a faith-based component in general education is not so much the content but the way such a component would be perceived. The media has already repeatedly alluded to Harvard returning to its Puritan roots. Even if the College somehow manages to remove this stigma of association with English Protestantism, it still risks being pigeonholed as giving undue emphasis to the study of religion and being grouped with parochial schools...