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...Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company under a Crown charter John Winthrop, arch-Puritan, sailed from Eng land in March 1630, aboard the tiny Arbella. On June 12 he landed at Salem. With him were 900 settlers in eleven ships. They moved to the mouth of the Charles River where they built a village and called it Boston...
...Mouhtar of Turkey, many a foreign minister, Governor Frank G. Allen and Mayor James Michael Curley stood for an hour saluting regimental colors. When the last of the parade had passed, the Governor, the Mayor and Tercentenary Commis- sioner Herbert Parker made speeches on Boston's history, praised the Puritan fathers. Aged Robert Grant, Boston's famed author-judge (The Confessions of a Frivolous Girl, Yankee Doodle, The Knave of Hearts, The Bishop's Granddaughter; member of Governor Fuller's advisory committee on the Sacco-Vanzetti case in 1927) read a poem. Herewith the last stanza...
Indelibly the Puritan's impress...
...field of literature, a course in English literature during the sixteenth century is being offered. The course will deal especially with the background of Puritan literature, and will be given by Merritt Yerkes Hughes, associate professor of English at the University of California...
...July 30, 31, and August 4, there will be special lectures by Professor Kenneth B. Murdock '16 on the colonial era. His subjects are as follows: "Literary and Intellectual Life in Puritan New England," "The Puritan as a Literary Artist," and "The Literary Background of the Revolution in New England." Of Harvard interest is the announcement of a lecture to be given on the subject "The Early History of Harvard"; the person who will give this talk has not as yet been named...