Word: puritans
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...John Winthrop, the Puritan leader and first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, was involved in the slave trade and donated books valued at ?20 to Harvard in 1658, marking the first time Harvard received money marked by ties to slavery...
...that same afternoon—amidst the gales and intermittent downpour—introductory speaker and University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann ’71, and the new Harvard president herself, seemed careful, however, to distance the incipient Faust era from the prejudices of the Puritan past...
...With biting references to the divine mission originally articulated by Harvard’s Puritan forefathers, their putatively misguided attempt to search for “truth” rather than “truths”—as well as the presumption of James Conant, who presided over Harvard in the mid 1900s, to address his letter to his 21st-century successor as “My dear Sir”—Faust appeared to discard the tradition of the university’s founders as unfit according to current standards...
...Mass. Hall will far outweigh any bureaucratic inconvenience. Mass. Hall’s function as a dormitory achieves that for which Harvard constantly strives: a delicate balance between incorporating the College’s colorful history, remaining faithful to tradition, and adapting the institution as it has developed from Puritan college to modern University. Mass. Hall once was home to the likes of John Hancock and John Adams, and the College is right in realizing that the 14 members of the class of 2012 lucky enough to be placed in Mass. Hall next fall are invaluable players in the building?...
...course, no such bloom would occur if the American soil were not already faith-saturated. But Ratzinger believes in America's "obvious spiritual foundation," its natural, Puritan-instilled DNA. He is well aware that this is eroding; he thinks we watch too much TV and fears that American secularization is proceeding at an "accelerated pace." But he insists that there is a "much clearer and implicit sense" in the U.S. than in Europe of a morality "bequeathed by Christianity." He has also given earnest thought to the mechanics of this civil religion, specifying that to affect the moral consensus...