Word: puritans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cowles of Adams pitched a one-hitter at Winthrop yesterday as the Gold-Coasters opened the House baseball season with an 8-0 win. Adams got only four hits, but the wildness of the Puritan pitchers gave the game away. In the other House game, Leverett turned back Kirkland 4-3. Two ball games are slated for tomorrow: Dunster against Dudley and Eliot against Lowell...
Some call Winthrop the home of the Crimson athlete, and they say that a Puritan scholar is a rare bird. This is a gross exaggeration. They are partially right, however, if they acknowledge that while a Winthrop man is known sooner for his letter sweater than for his letter grades the majority of Winthrop's athletes are good students...
Winthrop's share of Phi Betas is small and so is her list of group six students. She has men on every major team and stays in the middle of Straus competition. Even the seven Puritan seniors elected to this year's 12-man Class Committee represent a cross section...
...Puritan inmates live within unpretentious brick walls which aren't covered with Ivy. The rooms are large, aired by breezes from the Charles, and only six minutes from the Yard. No showers. During the winter the river can be seen through the bare trees lining Memorial Drive. Leaves make it more difficult to catch sight of the practicing crews during spring and fall...
Hampered by Puritan prudery, the early presidents like the Reverend Increase Mather imposed what now appear to be ludicrous regulations. For lying, a student would be fined one shilling, a good sum. But for eating plum cake, students would be fined 20 shillings! Somehow, Mather had gotten the notion that eating plum cake was an abomination unto the Lord. His regulation, furthermore, was religiously upheld by the authorities until just before the Revolution, and naturally enough, caused students to sneak plum cake more than ever. Student complaints about the food in general never ceased...