Word: puritanly
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Cushing pointed out that in early Puritan days democracy included the principle of spiritual education at state expense. "It took a long time to have a university president announce that private religious schools are inconsistent with American democracy...
...well-known lusty characters. The English necrologists, he said, have developed a special technique: "To tell the truth by denying its opposite." For example, it was said of the late novelist Norman Douglas: "His worst enemy could not have accused him of being either a hypocrite or a puritan." The past master of this art, Nicolson decided, was Sir Sidney Lee, author of the official biography of King Edward VII, who loved to eat his royal meals in a hurry. Avoiding such words as "gobbled" or "bolted," his biography simply noted: "Nor could it be said that...
Harvard College was built around a sturdy religious core. Its Puritan founders, "dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches," dedicated their new school to supplying an intelligent one. The first endowed Harvard professorship (established in 1721) was a chair of divinity...
Winthrop's combined 'A' and 'B' basketball squads stopped the previously undefeated Air R.O.T.C. last night, winning in overtime, 35 to 30. The rough Puritan hockey team had an easier time of it yesterday morning, smashing weak-sister Adams, 10 to 0, as Moe Baldwin scored four goals...
...QUIET power of that faith comes out in his sermons. He has the same restraint in the pulpit, and the simplicity of his appeal to a congregation perhaps owes something to the Puritan past. But he is very far from the old Puritans in the gentleness of his manner. He and his listeners are "we," quietly discussing "our sins." Here the effort to be ordinary is no longer a strain. It is spontaneous, and sincere. This genuine quality, even more than his intelligence, has made him one of the best preachers in English...