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Thus the victory of Emir Ibn Saud, who knows the Koran by heart, is virtually a Puritan Revolution...
...built her towers. Baked beans were the food that gave the force to Boston armies, the eloquence to Boston orators, the life to Boston industry. Now, however, the bean sits humble and forlorn while in the place of honor the cake reposes in frosted complacency. Not so once. In Puritan days marriages in Boston were solemnized with the following oath, "To you I shall be true till Boston goes back on ye bean", murmured the wedding guests. "Till Boston goes back on ye bean", echoed the walls...
...drank from them and under what circumstances? No one can ever know. Were the sparkling contents a forbidden delight furtively drunk by Puritan students of two centureis ago? Were they imbibed by Continental soldiers who were quartered in the hall during the Revolution? Did they serve to enliven some solemn Phi Bets Kappa dinner held there in the last century...
...Sargent was of Maine Puritan stock. His bodily vigor and passion for exercise revealed themselves during his school days. As a lad of 20, he was invited to direct the gymnasium of Bowdoin College. He accepted, sat to a tutor when not teaching the Bowdoinians to flex their limbs, became a Freshman himself. That was in 1871. The next year, Yale College, awakening to the new movement for physical education, sent for Sargent. Without interrupting his studies at Bowdoin, he supervised both the Yale and Bowdoin gymnasia for three years. In 1875, he was graduated by Bowdoin, entered the Yale...
...never stresses her points - but she makes them, neatly, incisively, roundly complete. The subject-matter of the present group of essays ranges from The Masterful Puritan and The Divineness of Discontent, to The American Laughs (a charming discussion of kinds of humor), and The Idolatrous Dog - all disputatious subjects, but ones in which Miss Repplier lines up the hosts, sets the stage for battle, then gracefully withdraws...