Word: puritans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...educational interests, the list would be incomplete without a reference to the ancient and celebrated university located in our midst. Founded only six years after the settlement of "the old town of Newtowne," that name was changed to Cambridge in memory of the English Cambridge, where several of the Puritan magistrates and elders had been educated, and it has been through its whole course a college town. The university has grown with its growth and strengthened with its strength. There are some who look upon the fair lands of Harvard with an eye to their taxable value, but the great...
Among the grim influences of Puritan Boston, our benevolent Goose cherished her golden eggs of fancy. "The Swan of Avon is not the only bird that has made melody for all time." If we do not fear to make this comparison, we certainly shall not shrink from placing our author beside her contemporaries in that chill time, the grave Judge Sewall, and Governor Bradstreet's uncanny sister, who is remembered unpleasantly even at this day. Beside the utterances of the Judge, which breathe the spirit of the time, the spirit of funerals and of work, the cheerful rhymes of Mother...