Word: puritanical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secondly, we must deny the word "renascence." Students here have been talking about religion for a good many years, and so to infer that there has been a lapse in theological inquiry is not really accurate. If the word is to imply a renascence of the religion of the Puritan fathers of this college, it is even more inept. For the decisions that are coming out of undergraduate speculation about religion do not represent a return to the faith in which they or their forefathers were raised, but rather a realization that some answer must be made to the problems...
...money. Yet in the annals of 324 years of College history one president stands out for another interest. Josiah Quincy strove for academic freedom, wrestled with financial problems and helped the College expand--but throughout the 16 years of his reign, his primary concern was inculcating an outmoded Puritan ethic of moral conformity and behavioral excellence...
...clamping down produced even greater disorder. Quincy became a martinet, the "Tiberius" of the College. "His policy toward the students, an alternate cuffing and caressing, ended in making him the most unpopular President in Harvard history since Hoar," wrote historian Samuel Eliot Morison. Quincy knew what was right--the Puritan code of upright moral behavior--and attempted to impose this upon the naturally unwilling student body...
Unclipped Wings. Nathanael Saint was seventh in a family of eight children who grew up in Huntingdon Valley near Philadelphia in an atmosphere of deep Puritan piety. Their father, Lawrence Saint, an eminent designer of stained glass (15 of his windows are in the Episcopal Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul in Washington), took his Christianity straight and Biblical. There was prayer meeting on Wednesdays, two services, plus Sunday school, on Sundays. Says Nate Saint's father: "We didn't encourage the children's friends to come and play on Sunday. I read the Bible and each...
...natural disasters. But last week it was facing a new threat: the wave of civic morality that is sweeping the nations of Southeast Asia with an evangelistic fervor. Imposed from the top, largely by military leaders who have taken over from fumbling and corrupt bureaucrats (TIME, Feb. 9), this Puritan outlook is also rooted in national pride. Evidences of the new morality...