Word: puritans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: The annual Christmas recess is drawing near, and it may not be out of place to express again the prevailing sentiments of the students as to its duration and arrangement. The Puritan founders of our college, as is well known, were a narrow-minded set of men in some particulars, though great and good in others. One of their exhibitions of narrowness consisted in their condemnation of the celebration of Christmas as an institution of Romanism, a lineal descendant of the east of the Saturnalia of the Pagan Yule Tide, etc. Now a relic of this ancient...
...corporal's arm and a trim maiden's waist; its reverse, by a diagram of a gentleman birching a boy, gave a good illustration of "Quarter Merited." A second displayed a picture of Austin Hall. A third had cartoons of a gory scalp, labeled, "The First Fee," a Puritan demolishing an Indian, thereby illustrating the "Ancient Action of Conversion;" a convict suit labeled "Livery of Seizer," and a bargain between a poco and an aborigine, representing the "Ancient Action for a Suit." A fourth showed a gentleman being killed vigorously in "Joint Action; "on the reverse an aged darkey...
...young clergyman - for it would seem that he was in orders, and his association with Emmanuel, the puritan seed-plot, had given a bent to his theological views - soon married Ann Sadler and drawn by those sympathies, we may well believe, which took Cotton and the other Emmanuel men to the New World, he is found before long in the New England Charlestown, where he built a house, which Judge Sewall tells us of, and which seems to have stood till the fire which swept the slopes of that peninsula during the battle of Bunker Hill, levelled...
...Puritan Students...
...other American university. A struggle for social position with all its attendant expenses is absolutely unavoidable among students thrown together, as are those of Harvard. Those who are most determined to secure such position will not consent, nor do their friends so encourage them, to a return to the Puritan methods of life. We deplore the evils resulting from such a race, but see in them only the reflected influences of home life. Let Mr. Garrison carry his weapons into the home and there preach simplicity. Regulations by the government of the university can only tend to destroy the good...