Word: puritanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front cover) THE LAST PURITAN-George Santayana -Scribner...
...note in the Yale News that a portrait is being painted of the first Eli graduate, Jacob Heminway, who received his degree in 1704. With no description of the gentleman in exis-life. Kirby's opinion that Heminway was a "bigoted, self-centered, stern old Puritan" is said to be confirmed by the fact that in later life "he cut off his tence, the artist, Donald Kirby, is "synthesizing" his features from available scraps of information regarding his only daughter without a penny because she had married an Episcopalian...
Born and half-bred an Episcopalian (he taught Sunday School, went to church every day in Lent), Upton Sinclair soon graduated into a more intense life as a puritan in Greenwich Village. Readers accustomed to his calves-foot-jelly style may raise an eyebrow when he says that he still has the cadences of the New Testament and the prayer-book running through his head, judges his own sentences by that echo. An optimist from the word go - enemies say he even jumped the gun - Author Sinclair early joined battle with his life-long foe, Determinism. Xo philosopher nor theologian...
...Thursday, December 19, the Puritan actors will present "The Social Glass." This play will be directed by W. Knox Chandler and Kenneth P. Kempton '12. An organization meeting for the selection of the cast has already been held, and actual tryouts will begin soon...
...When Puritan John Winthrop set aside the last Thursday in November as a day for giving thanks unto God, he had no thought of a future legal holiday that would cause difficulties at Harvard. If he had proclaimed Monday as the day of much eating, many students who now remain in Cambridge would be able to share the family turkey at home. Yet the sad fact remains that Thursday is the day. University Hall should accept this fact as inevitable and issue a proclamation about the entire weekend...