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Created out of a Puritan dread of leaving "an illiterate ministry to the churches," the nation's oldest--and, perhaps correspondingly, wealthiest and most illustrious--university has, for the past two years, been quietly resolving the greatest paradox in its 311-year history. By Commencement next month, a special investigating commission will recommend to the Corporation a revitalizing treatment for one of the University's neediest members, the Divinity School...
...only the men from Winthrop House. Latest attempt by the Puritan Prom sponsors to help relax those undergraduates afflicted with that dread disease "the reading rattle," the impromptu bleating succeeded in waking up half a dozen Widener nappers...
With the Brahmin class firmly dug in in the mud of its conservatism without the impetus of Puritan vitality, with the righteous middle class living in suburbs "the bedrooms of Boston" --outside the municipal limits where they have neither votes nor interest in reform, and with the working class content in its slums. Boston lacks the seed of initiative to overcome its inertia. In other cities a Joseph Pulitzer or a Mark Eldridge has crusaded through the newspapers and found something dynamic in the community to complement its editorials. In Boston, how ever, the press takes its lead from...
...Puritan Julio Vielman turned in one of the best individual times of the evening, touching the tiles in 32.8 in the 50-yard breast stroke event...
Most of Harvard's early presidents, including the first one, Henry Dunster, are here. They are under low, flat, horizontal marble monuments from the upturned surfaces of which the long Latin texts have been nearly completely worn away after over two centuries of weather. Others include the early puritan minister Thomas Shephard, the painter Washington Allston, and the author Richard Henry Dana...