Word: puritanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With both teams undefeated this season, the match last night was especially full of action. In the opinion of timekeeper Adolph W. Samborski '26, director of intramural athletics, Jim Rousemaniere of Winthrop played by far the scrappiest game of the match, and, with such other Puritan stars as Bill LaCroix, Bob Winsor, and Bob Fulton on the ice, the Dormitory players had their hands full...
Since the days of the Puritans two factors have caused Harvard to bow theology politely out of the College curriculum. One was the rise of Unitarianism in the early nineteenth century. With the appointment of the liberal Henry Ware as professor of Theology, this denomination came to dominate Harvard teaching. The old-line Trinitarians, feeling that they must train young men in the true faith, broke away from the College proper to form the Andover Seminary. With the old Puritan discipline gone, religious teaching in the College completely changed its form. The Unitarian faith, strongly tied up with Emersonian Transcendentalism...
Hammy Daughaday, Winthrop's star left and, gets the post of captain of the squad. Hammy's play was not sensational, but he was responsible in large part for the Puritan record of holding their seven. House opponents to two points while his teammates were scoring 74. A bulwark on defense week after week, his efficient blocking added much to the power of the highly touted Winthrop backfield...
Three of Daughaday's teammates finished on the first team along with two Commuters, two Deacons, two Bellboys, and a Funster. Another Puritan ended up on the second team, as did two men each from Dudley and Eliot, and one from Lowell, Kirkland, Leverett, Dunster, and Adams...
This means that even if Kirkland were to beat Winthrop tomorrow afternoon (an eventuality which is doubtful), the Puritan eleven would still be the one which will meet the champions of the Yale Inter-College league on Friday, November 17 at New Haven...