Word: puritans
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...explains why exercise could make you heavier - or at least why even my wretched four hours of exercise a week aren't eliminating all my fat. It's likely that I am more sedentary during my nonexercise hours than I would be if I didn't exercise with such Puritan fury. If I exercised less, I might feel like walking more instead of hopping into a cab; I might have enough energy to shop for food, cook and then clean instead of ordering a satisfyingly greasy burrito...
Memorial Church seems, at first glance, to be a vestige of Harvard’s Puritan roots. The austere brick façade evokes the covenanted communities of New England from which Harvard men used to flock. Accordingly, Memorial Church is Protestant...
...Memorial Church become such a central religious institution at Harvard? While the history of Harvard has always been intertwined with Protestantism, Harvard was not founded simply as a Puritan seminary. From the beginning, Harvard had no institutional affiliation with a denomination. The installation of lawyer John Leverett as university president in 1708 was a testament to Harvard’s secular—rather than religious—roots...
...institution from which the leadership of church, state, and trade was expected to emerge, and that leadership, like the community as a whole, was expected to remain deeply and correctly Christian.” Thus, at the very least, it seems clear that Harvard was never simply the Puritan stronghold that a Protestant church in the center of campus might suggest...
...Ol’ Jack Harvard and his Puritan scumbag brosephs came to this country to get away from people like us and have tried to keep us out ever since. NEWS FLASH: we’re back! Assholes. We brought our swarthy demeanor and our bocce balls. Get used to it. To these ol’ bluebloods, anyone who doesn’t get a boner at the mention of Plymouth Rock doesn’t belong in this country. NEWS FLASH: This is a melting pot, or a salad, or a taco salad, or a Cobb salad...