Word: puritanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Winthrop House carried off the honors in the House sculling regatta held Monday afternoon. In the wherry race, Frederick E. Lawton '36 took first place in four minutes, 33 seconds. Harlan T. Pierpont, Jr. '3', rowing for Dunster, won the compromise race, outrowing Dana C. Wrightington '36, a Puritan man, in three minutes, 51 seconds. And David F. Rogers '35, also of Winthrop House, placed first in the singles race in three minutes, 39 seconds, with John L. Ward '34, from Kirkland House, taking second...
...Puritan Pudding...
...John Charles Thomas, whom Manager Gatti lately engaged for next season, sang the heretic clergyman's music in a voice marvelously smooth and strong. Soprano Leonora Corona made a pneumatic Cavalier siren even in her formal, up-to-date evening dress. Demure Rose Bamplon was Plentiful Tewke, the Puritan maiden who was not quite tempting enough for Wrestling Bradford...
Losing by only a three and a half second margin, the Winthrop House crew was outrowed by the Yale Junior "A" crew in the Basin on Saturday afternoon. The Puritan boat, champion of the Harvard House crews, unexpectedly opened up at the start and led for the first half mile. But the Elis drew up at the mile mark and surged ahead to the finish line, winning by an even length over the mile and three-quarters distance...
...from the contemporary scene, centering on the poet George Herbert, for whom he was named, on classical literature; and, alone perhaps among his contemporaries, in the more traditional aspects of philosophy. He brought to the work of teaching a faith in the critical approach which was both classical and Puritan in origin, and yet was vital enough to make him eminent in a generation of great teachers...