Word: puritans
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...from the contemporary scene, centering on the poet George Herbert, for whom he was named, on classical literature; and, alone perhaps among his contemporaries, in the more traditional aspects of philosophy. He brought to the work of teaching a faith in the critical approach which was both classical and Puritan in origin, and yet was vital enough to make him eminent in a generation of great teachers...
...Puritan Rule in England," Dr. Jordan, Harvard...
Almost all the factors in the tradition of Puritan qualities associated with New England find in Dr. Lowell a representative. His authority derives not alone from his investiture as president of Harvard but from his position as head of an established family of the Commonwealth and from a chronicle of Lowell achievements which have their roots deeply imbedded in the past. Harvard College had been founded, but three years when, in 1639, Percival Lowell arrived in Newbury from Old England. From that time until the present the family name has figured body in the record of Massachusetts accomplishments in science...
...political and poetical storm centre. There they meet Poets John Milton, supervising a performance of his masque, Comus, Andrew Marvell, Abraham Cowley, John Cleveland. Julian adores Cleveland, is happy when he condescends to make love to her. But the shadows fly fast: in a brawl between Cleveland and her Puritan brother, Julian is killed; England is split by its worst civil war; Parson Herrick goes back to his Devonshire parish to be ousted by the Covenanters...
Music. Comrades with gramophones (and how prized is the oldest gramophone in Russia!) are now playing them openly at last, inviting their friends to dance and casting off frankly the Bolshevik-Puritan mask...