Word: puritanize
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...American is recognized abroad by the lines in his face. It always looks like a battleground of struggle between his real nature and his puritan upbringing...
...hard. The need of improving it remains the ghost in American academic closets. But if he is a true teacher he will enjoy it--enjoy it far more than Mr. Sherman--who is evidently more of a journalist than a faculty member. Indeed, to that inimitable essayist and Puritan, one must remark "Professor, How Could...
...America. (A two-thirds vote was required to authorize uniting with the Federal Council.) This defeat of the famed Bishop Brent was a victory for the Anglo-Catholic party, which prides itself on the ecclesiastical tradition of the Episcopal Church in contrast with the ecclesiastically doubtful parentage of the Puritan and other Reformation-born sects. The argument publicly put forth is that union with the "sects" would widen the breach with the Roman Catholic Church. This argument prevailed in spite of the two rebuttals: 1) The Roman Catholic Church recognizes no cousins ? from its point of view...
Against the background of early Massachusetts, and the London of James II and William III and the early life of the colonies, Kenneth Ballard Murdock '16, Instructor in English at the University, has formed his biography, "Increase Mather, The Foremost American Puritan." Mr. Murdock's volume is a fully documented vindication of the stern old Puritan's character. The story of his connection with Harvard College in its earliest years is fully told. This book will be published October...
...when Miss Lowell rose to reply, her reply was in terms of New England: two poems, one of a New England garden; one, the famous and beautiful Lilacs. Here are three women who adequately interpret the best of America, the sternest and the kindliest moods of the maligned Puritan tradition...