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Parkman was a puritan with a romantic streak, a social snob, a mentally and physically sick man who exalted the strenuous life and cracked under it. The Journals, which cover trips to New England, Canada, Florida, the Northwest and Europe, are as remarkable for what Parkman missed as they are for the precocious talent with which he described what interested him. He was only 17 when he made his first entries, but he had already decided to become an historian. At 23 he made his tour of the Oregon Trail, wrote his most famous (but far from his best) book...
...first press conference, Sayre gave a little homily drawn from his own career. Recalling that he was of New England Puritan stock, he said: "We could use a lot of the Puritan precepts right now, particularly that of work." More productivity-as distinguished from more production-was a big part of the answer to inflation. Said he: "I don't believe any of us are working as hard as we can or ought to under the circumstances...
...inconvenienced, discouraged, and occasionally clamped down upon, but never since drama became an important part of American culture in the 1880s have they failed to entangle themselves in theatrical activities of one sort or another. Before this period Harvard had some 250 years in which to lave in the Puritan tradition. In the seventeenth century, there had been no question of the impropriety of plays--their immorality was never doubted. Like singing, dramatics were not then against the College laws, but as Samuel Eliot Morison has pointed out in his history of Harvard University, "this negative evidence is double-edged...
...late thirties. The University has evidence of strong undergraduate support for a War Memorial Student Activities Center, which according to plans would include an auditorium theatre. If SAC should be vetoed as a War Memorial, future historians would be able to trace an attitude that was born in Puritan times, and that was still alive and screaming in 1925, through at least 22 more years...
...holiday meed will be matuisined by Lowell on Monday night with Ben Johnson's "Epicone." The presentation will be preceded by a House dinner. Puritan asceticism will be set aside temporarily Tuesday as the Winthrop tradition of presidential dinner addresses continues. After his chat, President Conant will be entertained by a performance of "the Compulsory Marriage...