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...Daniel Defoe of trans-Atlantic slavetraders in 1702. In 1695 "Oroonoko", a popular London play, depicted plantation life and a bloody slave insurrection with striking sympathy: "If you saw the bloody Cruelties, / They execute on every slight offence . . . / Your heart wou'd bleed for 'em." In 1703 the Boston Puritan Samuel Sewall wrote against slavery in "The Selling of Joseph", and as early as 1667 his predecessor, Michael Wigglesworth, had contended that God was color-blind: "Although Affliction tan the Skin, / Such saints are Beautiful within...
...council elections) and “Surrey to Sell Out” (when Britain’s Surrey University took an initiative to break away from traditional government funding), Oxford’s weekly tiptoes along the line of objectivity. After all, straight-faced, no-nonsense reporting is so Puritan...
...comments go directly to the heart of who should compose our community. Who will be left out of Pappin’s university? Who amongst our friends, colleagues, mentors and teachers will he cast out beyond the locked gates of the Yard? Mr. Pappin, Harvard is not the Puritan college of 1636 or the New England finishing school of 1920; Harvard is the great research university of 2002. We changed and ceased to fear the diversity and freedom that tolerance permits. So should...
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Harvard’s meeting with Penn this weekend, which will be the featured match-up on ESPN’s College Game Day broadcast. Let’s hope that Lee Corso ends up wearing a goofy Puritan hat and not a Quaker one when he makes his game prediction...