Word: puritanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Eliot once said that the appreciation of music was not characteristic of the type of evolved Puritan usually to be found in the Harvard Corporation. If we admit that the evolution has been slow, it is nevertheless true that the Pierian Sodality, which 100 years ago had to rely wholly for its inspiration from those ancient springs its name was taken from, has shown us that music, both instrumental and choral has won a recognized place in University life. It is therefore fitting" Mr. Greene concluded, "that the Sodality and the Glee Club should have an active part...
George Santayana, "The Last Puritan"; John Gunther, "Inside Europe"; Negley Farson, "The Way of the Transgressor"; Alexis Carrel, "Man the Unknown"; Anne Lindbergh, "North to the Orient"; Walter Duranty, "I Write as I Please"; P. G. Wodehouse, "The Bodkins...
Late in the period, Joe Hindle, wing on the Puritan second line, drove a fast one past the Eli net tender after an assist by Dan Burbank...
Your cover (Feb. 17, Hitler's Leni Riefenstahl) beat the cables easily in vividness of depiction, but you made it extremely difficult for persons in the Puritan highlands to keep their minds on their work...
Sirs: ...Your review of The Last Puritan pleases not less by its critical insight than by its leisurely and arresting treatment of a little known personality and a unique book...