Word: puritans
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...college” as their reason for cutting down visitation hours, a 1955 Crimson article reported.But several graduates say that parietals were implemented to preserve purity on campus rather than maintain the masculinity of the college.“I think [administrators] were more interested in the Puritan ideology than in gender,” says LaMonte.“[The deans] probably enjoyed the times when women could visit because it kind of gave a party atmosphere,” says Royce. “It was very pleasant to look at, so it wasn?...
...nationalist mindset, then, in my final weeks as a member of this academic community, I offer an instance of the most primal and distinctive kind of American speech: a jeremiad for the occasion.In the colonial pulpits of this area, fire-and-brimstone orations scorched the consciences of backsliding Puritan congregations. Termed the “jeremiad,” such a sermon maintains an uncompromising, and strangely exultant, insistence that every day, members of an egalitarian community make a choice: the ideal society we are called to build, or your own, pathetic, selfish desires, you maggot. Which?...
Councillors criticized the current cap for being antiquated and for stifling small business growth. Councillor Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87 noted that Cambridge has “hopefully” moved beyond its Puritan roots and said a more flexible policy would “make it easier for restaurants to do business in the city...
Boston has never quite managed to escape its Puritan founders...
...publication of anti-Islamic Danish cartoons. A town hall meeting had to be called to save face. No such action, or demand, for that matter, has occurred in the case of the Christians. Apparently, Harvard’s Christians are used to being slighted.Harvard was founded by Puritans as a place of study for clergymen. As it grew into a more modern and progressive institution, the University shed its Christian roots and began admitting a wide range of religious backgrounds. Today, the University is rolling in religious diversity. Dharma, the campus Hindu organization, is booming: the Harvard Islamic Society recently...