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Unless he is already familiar with the facts, the Freshman is certain to be informed that a discriminating use of dates shows that the college has been English longer than American and that it was designed primarily to train ministers for service in the hamlets of Puritan New England. But long before President Eliot expanded the college into a modern university it had broken from those early ecclesiastical traditions, and with further development that spirit has been lost almost entirely. In a measure the career of the Right Reverend William Lawrence, Bishop of Massachusetts, recreates the atmosphere of early Harvard...
...have been ever a valiant soldier of the truth; a "Happy Warrior", strong, serene and steadfast, in the full meaning of the poet's phrase--with, I imagine, something of the Puritan's delight in the joy of righteous conflict. We rejoice that you are still clad in your shining armor; that your soul is radiant with the spirit of youth...
...chorus girls, and deftfingered, silk-hatted Oakhursts. As an ideal, this is to be commended, but its practical; wisdom seems questionable. The removal of temptation has never, in the Social history of man, taken the place of the indispensable qualities of self-control and firm restraint. Even in the Puritan England of Oliver Cromwell, John Milton decried the growing tendency to banish evil influences instead of enabling men to overcome them by a sense of personal responsibility. And the present move is, besides, some what reminiscent of the retreat of the eighteenth century romanticists to their ivory tower...
...Puritan Passions", the picture which is running at the Modern and Beacon Theatres in Boston, is almost entirely a Harvard production. In the cast, with J. F. Cabot '22, who is the third leading man, is R. O. Perkins '14, who played in the Pi Eta, Hasty Pudding, and 47 Workshop productions...
...Cabot '22, of Boston, is now appearing as third leading man in a picture called "Puritan Passion," which stars Glenn Hunter, at the Modern and Beacon theatres...