Word: puritanly
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...tipped off the House football season yesterday afternoon as a stubborn Deacon eleven beat the Bunnies to the tune of 6 to 0 and a fighting Lowell House aggregation came from behind in the fourth period to topple a small but powerful Puritan outfit...
...relatively small Puritan team will attempt to prove the old adage that good things come in little packages when it takes on a rather mediocre Bell Boy aggregation. Winthrop should win this one, and is counting heavily on Stan Durwood, who was all set to take a place on the Varsity tackle squad when the Deans nabbed him. Durwood is playing his old position in the backfield, and should work the Lowell defense pretty hard...
...Dissenter Harvard were also considered, and the Archbishop of Canterbury was urged to send a missionary who might "give a right turn to the Youth who are educated there." He sent the Reverend East Apthorp, whose Cambridge home is now occupied by the Master of Adams House, but the Puritan masters of the College and community lost little time in driving him back to England...
...Mexico], more than in the U.S., the family is regarded as a fundamental institution. ... It is believed that the conjugal visit keeps couples together. Whether or not we Americans have sufficiently outgrown our Puritan heritage to support such a humanitarian policy is a debatable question...
...Pound and Eliot are not the only anti-Miltonians. There are also Middleton Murry, Herbert Read, Bonamy Dobree. Against their stock charges of Milton's logorrhea, his maulings of English syntax, his Puritan intolerance, his philosophic narrowness. Defender Smith has a pat answer - "Not the thing said makes poetry, but a way of saying it." Milton "is world-great," says Smith quoting Carlyle on Dante, "not because he is worldwide, but because he is world-deep...