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...opinion was President Coolidge, the object a group of Democratic women in Hartford, Conn. Said Mrs. Blair: "I believe that he has not won favor with the women, largely because women voters are thorough modernists and they cannot see that an 18th Century man, such as our admittedly Puritan President is, is fitted particularly for the problems of this rushing 20th Century. A great amount of propaganda has been sent out about his ' cautiousness,' ' thriftiness ' and ' silence,' and the women, I believe, do not find these particularly commendable virtues in a President. Caution is easily synonymous with lack of courage...
...lecture this afternoon will deal with "John Winthrop and the Puritan Union." The lecture on October 19 will show the influence of Benjamin Franklin on the growth of nationality. On October 23, Professor Holcombe will speak on "John Dickenson and the Imperfect National Union", and on October 26, his culminating lecture will be "Abraham Lincoln and the Triumph of Nationality...
...Puritan simplicity Calvin Coolidge leads all the rest. A few sentences from Mr. Coolidge's peroration...
...Britishers, so dear to Mayor Hylan's educational heart, flourish under a system of international textbooks in history? What kind of hundred-per-centism could be taught in schools which looked to a world peace through understanding? Commissioner Hirshfield may well weep as he calls upon his Puritan ancestors to witness this triumph of radical propaganda...
...What is a Puritan?" With great emphasis we are told that the Puritan is "an iconoclast, an image-breaker". "Puritanism is an urgent exploring and creative spirit." It seems that Professor Sherman struck a snag somewhere. Would not his definition cover the men whose work he finds harmful to the formation of a real American literature? Cannot these writers insist that their "vision of the good life" is as adequate as that advance by Emerson and Whitman...