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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...good Puritan tradition, we'd love to be the elect. But what we're chosen for is important as well. Not only was Harry hand-picked, he was hand-picked to learn magic. This is no ordinary task, but something on which the world depends: a matter of good and evil, of plugging yourself into these great unknown forces and currents swirling around the globe...

Author: By Maryanthe E. Malliaris, | Title: Alchemy and Other Core Courses | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

While this may seem minor, and even a trifle ridiculous, in a school so generally lacking in school spirit I can't help but think that our lack of a real, supportable mascot is part of the problem. Who wants to rally behind a giant Puritan head? Having rowed for Radcliffe, I hope I can speak for athletes on campus in that school spirit and support for our teams is almost embarrassingly low. Something has to be done to revitalize school spirit...

Author: By Sarah E. Hendrickson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Our Missing Mascot | 8/11/2000 | See Source »

...campus. I never understood the appeal of the ha-ha-funny "1638" on the John Harvard Statue. And what about the three-year-old "Anne Bradstreet" gate outside Canaday? Unveiled as part of a "25 Years of Women in Harvard Yard" celebration in 1997, a nearby plaque quotes its Puritan namesake in the gilded letters of her prose: "I came into this Country, where I found a new World and new manners at which my heart rose." Inspirational--until you realize that the powers-that-be seem to be trying to pull a fast one on us. I came across...

Author: By Andrew K. Mandel, | Title: Memo to the Heir Apparent | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...Puritan New England offered few outlets for fun; throughout the region, Harvard Commencement was known as a bacchanalian celebration, the great holiday of the Commonwealth...

Author: By Stephanie K. Clifford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Salvete Omnes: The History of the Latin Oration | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...Baccalaureate sermon then became called the Baccalaureate address, dropping the last vestiges of Puritan preaching...

Author: By Matthew F. Quirk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Modernized Baccalaureate Aims to Please All | 6/7/2000 | See Source »

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