Word: puritanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides editing and writing for his own paper, White has published several novels, and numerous essays and biographies. "A Certain Rich Man," his first novel, was published in 1909. His "Life of Woodrow Wilson," "Calvic Coolidge," and its sequel, the "Puritan In Babylon," published last year are among his more famous biographies...
...Puritan's Progress" unfolds the plight of an "A" student who falls into the toils of a buxom Dorchester lass. To be blunt, and the play is, he has to marry her. To his rescue comes Uncle Joe Whipple, erstwhile Beacon Hill Harvardian who has spent his post-college life in the Yukon. Uncle Joe lays $50,000 in gold on the line if young Whipple gets kicked out and marries Dorchester's Polly Dugan. Whip tries hard, aided by his room-mates. But something always comes up to change the whole aspect of his misdemeanors...
...this phonograph records shattered over heads, beer cans galore, a bottle of potent Yukon "Cutchaw," and you have, as "The Puritan's Progress" had, material for any number of Harvard House plays. It is profane, original, and as modern as the Daily Record, in whose columns it might well run as a serial story. Which is just about what a good House play ought...
Author of many books including the recently published "Puritan in Babylon," White will broadcast his Monday lecture and two others which follow on Tuesday and Monday, May 1 internationally by the non-commercial short wave station WIXAR, companion station to WIXAL, of Boston...
Including in its cast a Colonel Lead-head and a Dean Canford, more than a few Harvard traditions and University Hall personages will find characters reminiscent of their own in the annual Winthrop House play, "The Puritan's Progress," scheduled for performance Thursday and Friday nights at 8:15 o'clock in the Junior Common Room...