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NEITHER PEST NOR PURITAN-E. Berry Wall-Dial Press...
Individual star of the tournament was Dick pester of the Puritan team, who took first place in the discus throw, fifth in the javelin, and set a new House record in putting the 12-pound shot 49 feet 10 1/4 inches...
...brother of the famous athlete, Marshall "Ma" Newell '95, after whom Newell boathouse was named, has long been the motivating force of the New Jersey Harvard Club. Follansbee, who has attended "all but two or three" of the 43 Harvard Club meetings, commented that "if I weren't a Puritan, I'd say it was the best damn meeting we've ever...
...riot was a walking and talking gathering from its beginning. Progressing up Mill Street between Lowell and Winthrop Houses, the spring affected frolickers took up the traditional cry of "Reinhardt," and more men poured out of the dormitories in addition to a few wastebaskets full of water from the Puritan upper windows...
Henry Purcell composed at a time when the mediaeval religious tradition of the Renaissance had disintegrated into a purely secular art. The English Restoration, especially, was accompanied by an important efflorescence of secular music. One can easily appreciate the role of the Puritan Revolution in creating the new spirit. The seventeenth century Puritan, with his austere morality and his mystic absorption in God, could neither enjoy music nor understand its function. To him music was a sensual pleasure, and as such was a barrier to the contemplation of eternal truths. It had no place in the Church service. In this...