Word: puritanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time when theological disagreement was equated with political revolution, a contentious English gentleman named John Lilburne was brought before King Charles I's Star Chamber, accused of circulating Puritan writings. The Star Chamber, originally a reputable judicial council, had become a fierce and single-minded tribunal, given to extracting confessions by torture. Lilburne refused to take the chamber's normal oath of testimony, on the ground that no man was bound to incriminate himself. Although he was whipped, fined and jailed, his stand made him a popular hero...
...Later, Puritan Lilburne proved too argumentative for his own good. He defied Cromwell as testily as he had defied the King, and was repeatedly jailed for attacks on whatever government was in power. To the end of his life he kept arguing with anyone whom he could find to challenge or insult. His epitaph reads...
Later in the second quarter, Lowell made its deepest penetration of the game, reaching the two-inch line. But the Puritan line, led by Bill Glaser, held...
First of the great presidents was John Leverett. Layman and liberal in an of office always before filled by puritan ministers, he refused to see his College turned into a Calvinist school of theology. In puritan-dominated New England, these views were regarded as dangerous. Leverett wanted a liberal arts college; his utilitarian neighbors wished to see their sons taught practical skills...
...early New England, the narrowing strictures of puritanism were constantly endangering the College. The election of Samuel Webber to the presidency in 1806 marked the first in a long line of Unitarian presidents. Samuel Eliot Morison writes, "Orthodox Calvinists, of the true puritan tradition now became open enemies to Harvard.... Unitarianism of the Boston stamp was not a fixed dogma but a point of view that was receptive, searching, inquiring, and yet devout; a halfway house to the rationalistic and scientific point of view...