Word: puritanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than the average American small town, where frame shacks and ferro-concrete skyscrapers jostle each other. In Cambridge (you must get used to the fact that there is a Cambridge other than that which exists for your convenience) there is neither skyscraper nor shack, but a lot of demure, Puritan red-brick, keeping its undistinguished self to itself...
They were provided with a special building, built in 1654 and called the "Indian College", in the space now between Harvard and Massachusetts Halls, in which some 20 could be accomodated. Harvard's Puritan fathers went even further to lure the Indians into the college where they might be instilled with Christianity. For besides having their own dormitory, most of the aborigines had their expenses paid by friends who were formed into a "Society for Propagating the Gospel", in favor of which odd amounts of pounds and shillings are listed on the old budgets...
...LAST PURITAN-George Santayana -Scribner...
...Monthly" was founded in 1885, and included in its first list of editors was George Santayana '86, author of "The Last Puritan." During its career, many other literati have served on its board, among them John R. Dos Passos, Jr. '16, Robert S. Hillyer '17, E. E. Cummings '15, Bernard Berenson '17, and last but hardly least, Ernest A. Simpson '17, of Queen's husband fame...
...After two hours and a quarter, Preacher Vhitelock said: "Let us pray." His listeners professed not to have been bored. To them the service was a notable event, the 13th annual Two-Hour Sermon, which Baptist Whitelock had introduced in Chelsea as a revival from Puritan times...