Word: puritanly
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Student life was both Spartan and Puritan in the early days of Massachusetts Hall. The students performed their ablutions in the chill New England air at a pump in the College yard. The regulation College breakfast was "a cue (mug) of beer and two sizings of bread." Students were up at daybreak and were kept at their studies by candle-light. If the frequent verbal admonitions of their tutors failed to keep them at their books, a stout stick was resorted to. One unfortunate youth, on being chastised by the Reverend Nathaniel Eaton, first President of Harvard, cried aloud...
...Puritan forefathers fought one sort of bigotry with another. Let us not imitate them." --New York...
...many members of the regiment, and not many citizens of the neighborhoods which the regiment will invade in the course of its Sunday adventures, still hold to the Puritan idea of Sunday in all its ancient rigor. But there are still a great many on both sides who would regret to see the distinction between this day and the rest wiped out, or even to see the American Sunday become indistinguishable from the Continental Sunday. Whether this idea is a prejudice, a sentiment, or a religious principle, it deserves our respect; and we shall not recommend the regiment...
...Regatta, and will be one mile and a half in length. The other races of the Regatta will be: First Single Sculls, for the Farragut Challenge Cup; Second Single Sculls; First Double Sculls, for the Schuylkill Challenge Cup; First Four Sculls (Centipedes); First Four-Oared Sculls, for the Puritan Challenge Cup; Special Four-Oared Shells for the United States Navy Cup, open only to crews from colleges and boat clubs eligible as "Second" Fours; First Eight-Oared Shells, for the Stewards' Challenge Cup; Special Inter-Club Second Eight-Oared Shells; Junior Collegiate Eight-Oared Shells, for the New England Challenge...
...comes forward with a suggestion that Thanks giving be celebrated on the last Saturday rather than the last Thursday of November. It is doubtful whether any large number of persons could be induced to lay profane hands upon an institution which has been fixed since the days when the Puritan fathers waxed thankful for bounteous crops. But as far so college men are concerned, they would undoubtedly favor a week-end holiday which would allow many of them to eat turkey in their own homes, and save the inevitable anti-climax of the following blue Friday and Saturday...