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...preachers sagely nodded while Salem witches screamed and shriveled" ("Wall Reunion." TIME, July 9). Does "shriveled" mean some shrinkage or withering due to natural causes?or did a TIME writer, like those Puritan preachers, nod? In either case, because no modern delusion is more widespread or persistent among intelligent and otherwise well-informed persons than that concerning the manner in which the victims of the 17th Century Witchcraft Delusion perished, will you tell TIME readers exactly how many men and women, in all the American colonies, were ever burned for witchcraft? J. FRANK DAVIS...
Deeb Peter's circuit clout with three men on base in the last half of the last inning overcame the Puritan's 5-1 lead and gave the Deacons a base 6-5 win, thus allowing them to continue serenely along their way at the top of the League with an unscathed record, in one of the House ball games staged yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field...
...split tournament, started yesterday and to be continued on Thursday, the Puritan tennis team gained a 2-0 lead over the Dunster netmen in two doubles matches...
Preservation of Puritan prestige depends on: cox, Robert L. Henderson '35; stroke, Stowell F. Johnson '35; 7, John R. Pappenheimer '36; 6, John W. Carman '34; 5, Emil A. Kratovil '36; 4, William 2. Gallagher '36; 3, Edward C. Carman '35; 2, Richard K. Pratt '34; bow, Robert F. Bampton...
...statue is wholly an imaginary likeness of the first benefactor of the University, after whom it was named. No picture of John Harvard was extant at the time French began his sculpture, so he selected a student thought to resemble the founder, dressed him in Puritan garb, and used him as a model. The statue was the gift of Samuel James Bridges. It stood originally in the delta west of Memorial Hall, but in 1924 it was moved to its present location in the Yard--according to one theory, in order to keep all light out of the Dean...