Word: puritanize
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...celebration of Thanksgiving took on a peculiarly American character at the college. During the service held in the chapel Dr. Fisher spoke briefly about the Puritan messages and the Pilgrims. The singing of the national anthem brought to a close an impressive ceremony in memory of the traditions and ideas of a far distant land...
...many of us, John Harvard is nothing more than a name to conjure with. To others, he is an impersonal bronze statue in the delta, valuable only as a subject for cartoonists. But that name and that statue have a deeper significance. The pensive young Puritan seated in the shadow of Memorial Hall embodies in a way the spirit that the University is proudest to foster: an earnest thoughtfulness. John Harvard was a young nonconforming divine who came to this continent in the early days of the colony in search of freedom for his thought and teaching...
...Golf Club. 1 P. M., luncheon at the Cohasset Golf Club, followed by golf, tennis, bathing, etc. There will be an informal "Dutch treat" supper at the Harvard Club of Boston in the evening. 11 A. M., the wives and daughters of members of the class will leave the Puritan Hotel, Boston, by auto for the Cohasset Yacht Club where lunch will be served at 1 P. M. After an auto trip to Plymouth they will return for supper with Mrs. Matthew Luce, at Cohasset...
June 23. 12 M. to 1.30 P. M., lunch in Holden Chapel. 11 A. M., the wives and daughters of members of the class will leave Hotel Puritan, Boston, for Prides Crossing where they will lunch with Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw at 1 P. M. After an auto trip along the North Shore they will have tea with Mrs. Charles S. Hopkinson at Manchester...
...written beneath in letters of gold. We cannot add a cubit to our moral stature by yearning to be like those joyful sons of other institutions of learning who herald their democracy and mutual esteem by holing like wolves. Let us be content that the shades of the Puritan will always flit silently among us to dampen slightly our fervency and moderate our joy of living. Those sober men of the old time were not devoid of passion and numbered among them many of the "good and the great", of whom we are still able--on occasion--lustily to sing...