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...puritan clergyman, the Reverend Joseph Glover, planned to bring some printing equipment from England to the United States, and as his plan was put into operation, he died. A printer travelling with Glover, who died at sea, then took the project in hand and cared for its transportation to the New England coast. This man, Daye, first put the press into operation in Cambridge. According to a record of Governor Winthrop. "The first thing printed was the freemen's oath; the next was an almanac made for New England by Mr. William Pierce, mariner; the next was the Psalms newly...
...Vagabond has just returned from celebrating the anniversary of the one time in all the year that his Puritan forebears had a good time. For three centuries the last Thursday in November has seen New England asceticism buried under a pile of stuffed fowl and mince pies in such quantities as to flout the good taste of a Roman Emperor. Frigid godliness in its one attempt to appear human sank for a brief holiday a bit below the line that divides hunger from voracity, and this annual fall from grace has left its mark upon a more moderate posterity...
...Puritan Individualism", Professor Perry, Emerson...
...Puritan, a Moral Athlete," Professor Perry, Harvard...
...most important factors in the formation of America and at the same time one now almost completely misunderstood is that of Puritanism. Those who have any interest in increasing their knowledge about this phase of American life have a choice of lectures today which discuss the Puritan civilization from different points of view. Professor R. B. Perry speaks at 10 o'clock in Emerson D on "The Critique of Puritanism," and at the same hour Professor Murdock will discuss "The Mathers" in Harvard...