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...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 »

...strict Puritan society, Commencement was a rare chance to celebrate, and residents of surrounding towns mobbed Cambridge...

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

...English professor was the Puritan scholar Perry Miller, with whom Coles developed a close relationship while an undergraduate...

Author: By David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Beyond Academia: Dr. Robert Coles Listens and Learns | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

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