Word: puritans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Duncan contributes an historical sketch, "A Glimpse of Harvard in 1674," in which he describes an incident of the stern discipline, which characterized the rule of the good old Puritan president of the college...
...effort was made to put the biship on a higher level than the rest of the priesthood, and it was even admitted that the church had the right to abolish bishop if expedient. It was only in later times that that tyrannical prelacy was established, to escape which our Puritan ancestors left England...
...Puritan Club of Boston is organizing a team of the veteran football players to play against the Harvard eleven...
...WILLIAM BARNES."The Unveiling of the Puritan Statue in Central Park." -G. W. Curtis...
Agnes Repplier's article, "The Cavalier," is a plea for the dashing cavalier who fought for the King against the roundhead Puritan. "Po' Sandy" is a story in the negro dialect by C. W. Chestnut. Following this comes an interesting account of the American Philosophical Society by Annie H. Wharton. "Cicero in the Senate," by H. W. Preston, is so carefully prepared that it might well serve as a short history of the great orator. Herbert Tuttle gives us an account of the Emperor William. The student of fine arts will be interested in reading "Mr. Ruskin's Early Years...