Word: puritanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true that the historical heritage of Harvard played a large part in the minds of all who shared in the celebration. The stream of Puritan propaganda from Professor Morison's able pen aroused as much undergraduate indignation about Mistress Eaton's ale and hasty pudding scandals as the student body normal expresses in a Rinehart riot. Rays of past glory were even reflected in the window of a local purveyor, who offered a Tercentenary Cocktail to warm the cockles of your heart after the chilling effects of New England rain in the Tercentenary Theatre. But ghosts from distant times were...
Edward L. Cutter, Jr. '38 got away first on an off-tackle plunge to run 25 yards through a broken field, climaxing a steady Puritan offensive with a second quarter score. Thomas B. Champion '38 failed to convert...
...School and Harvard. He was drawn into politics after quick failures in a counting house and in his father's business, did his first political writing anonymously at the age of 26. Caught up in the great religious revival of the 1740's, he became an ardent Puritan and remained one until his death, living simply, denouncing all vices impartially, demanding a return to the sober ways of the founding fathers. He served as city scavenger and tax collector (acquiring a shortage on his books of ?7,000), married, fathered two children, was widowed and married again...
Governor Curley again made political capital out of the name "Harvard" when he issued a "severe rap" at the Lampoon and the Crimson in rallies last night. Citing a Lampoon cartoon entitled "Curley Addresses His Puritan Ancestors" as illustrative of how Harvard felt toward the "ordinary man" (His Excellency acting in the capacity of "ordinary man") he went on to quote the remarks of a Square merchant in Friday's Crimson on President Roosevelt's ride down Mass Avenue...
...Shakespeare heading the list. The Third, printed in 1664, claims to present seven hitherto unpublished works "according to true original copies." Six of these are spurious, however, and only one, "Pericles, Prince of Tyre, is Shakespeare's. The others, which include such plays as he "Yorkshire Tragedy" and the "Puritan Widow" are by authors unknown today...