Word: puritans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will, of course, be of much less importance than the recent celebration at Edinburgh, but it is, nevertheless, one in which Harvard is particularly interested. For it was at Emmanuel that John Harvard obtained his college education, and from which he came direct to America to preach to the Puritan colonists. It was also the alma mater of Henry Dunster, the first president of Harvard College. The name itself of Cambridge came after them from the old to the new seat of learning. It was still comparatively young-50 years old-when the New England college was founded...
...much difficulty exists in regard to the costume for the proposed statue, as we have many representations of the dress worn by Puritan clergymen of the time. If Harvard was a clergyman educated at Cambridge and following the fortune of other clergymen, came to Massachusetts in the early period, he was probably a Puritan of their stamp, that is. not a dissenter. Puritan ministers of that day are represented in pictures as wearing a somewhat closely fitting cloak, covering a cassock, with a broad linen collar and a skull cap. No mistake could be made in regard to the garments...
...both curious and entertaining to note the change which has taken place in regard to compulsory morning chapel from the time of the Puritan founders of Harvard to the present day. Nowhere can the gradual modification and broadening of Puritanism be more clearly shown. Originally there being no chapel, services were held by each class in their tutor's room, but this was given up, and the college met as a whole in rooms in different buildings until finally Holden chapel was constructed. Under President Dunster's regime, before the chapel had been erected, there were some quaint old rules...
...that he was a member of Emmanuel College, Cambridge; that in 1635 he received his degree; that afterwards, in 1637, he obtained the higher one of A. M. In the latter part of this year he set sail for this country and became a freeman of the Puritan settlement. In 1638 he died...
...evening - or of those others who have to hurry, winter and summer, at 7 o'clock or earlier every morning to the cold precincts of the college chapel. Nevertheless these comparisons are interesting as affording a view of what in a certain sense may be called a "survival" of Puritan New England...