Word: puritanism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Lamb '02, "The Crankiness of the Puritan," Chauncey M. Depew...
Dean Hodges of the Cambridge Theological Seminary will give the second of his lectures on the Puritan Reformation, at St. John's Chapel tomorrow afternoon, at the four o'clock service. After the service there will be the customary organ recital. Following is the programme: Chorus from "Israel in Egypt" ("And the waters overwhelmed them"), Handel; Fantasie in E minor, Merkel; Monologue, Rheinberger; Trio, for three boys' voices, Concone; Aria in D., from orchestral suite, Bach; War March of the Priests, Mendelssohn...
...Bonnet, Jr., 2G.; "The Old Mill," 32, and "The Last of the Mohegans," 33, by Julian Burroughs '01; "Marine," 41, and "Towing Out," 45,--a sketchy bit in sepia effect,--by H. W. Eliot '02; "Boats on Italian Lake," 90, by J. A. O'Reilly '02; "A Little Puritan," 109, and "Portrait: Miss H.," 110, by Professor Charles R. Sanger; "A Deserted Camp," 121,--a snow scene in the spruce woods,--by R. W. Shapleigh '02; and "On a City Yard," 145,--a picturesque pin-hole study by Mr. W. H. Tillinghmt...
...absence of definite knowledge is due to the vague nature of the reform. It was neither a doctrine nor a tangible belief, but rather an impulse of self-emancipation, hampered to some extent by the conservatism of the day. Coming as a reaction from the old Puritan theology, it excited a storm of abuse and persecution as furious as it was undeserved. Theodore Parker, the leader of the party, held views on the interpretation of the Scriptures which would today be considered the reverse of radical; and yet these same views prevented his election to the Phi Beta Kappa...