Word: puritans
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...audience members at President Drew G. Faust’s installation ceremony, drenched by downpour—auguring perhaps the Heavens’ displeasure with the proceedings—and subjected to all the platitudinous ennui, could observe the new administration’s explicit hostility to tradition. Our Puritan founders, though bigots themselves, were thrust into stocks by the likes of President Faust and University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann ’71and pilloried for their apparent prejudice against women’s liberation and atheism—the two talismans of the nascent Faust...
...wealth production is gambling, and Australians are among the most shamefully obsessed gamblers in the world. We have 20 times as many "pokies"--poker machines--per person as Americans. Our styles of wealth production enforce the belief that superiority is luck and only luck: no moral lessons apply. The Puritan impulse toward social responsibility that created the American system of educational, cultural and scientific philanthropy hardly exists in Australia...
...first person to be inaugurated in a skirt.” And the huge black robe? “I don’t know whether it’s actually the same cloth that Larry wore, but it’s meant to emulate the garb of a Puritan minister... It’s completely unlike any other University president’s.” Those Puritans were always known for their keen fashion sense...
...Jesus was intimate with men and women,” a biblical scholar told his audience at Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church, a stone’s throw from the final resting places of Harvard’s early Puritan presidents. Peter Larose was hosting the first in a series of five discussions on the Bible and the ethics of sexuality at the church adjacent to Harvard Law School. “The ancients had no way of understanding human sexuality the way we understand it,” he told the audience of 10. “This...
...took the podium for her installation as Harvard’s 28th president on Friday afternoon.In a rainy and blustery Tercentenary Theatre, Faust turned to the past as she articulated a vision of Harvard’s future. Dressed in a robe modeled on the raiments of a Puritan minister, she invoked John Winthrop as she presented what she called a “compass to steer by,” a web of broadly conceived priorities for the University and higher education.“The essence of a university is that it is uniquely accountable to the past...