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...statue is being modeled from an exceptionally intelligent beast in the New York Zoo. Yale is threatened with a similar totem of the dog. Princeton is to have a live tiger. But Harvard has never really taken to the donkey. She prefers John Harvard, a square-toed young Puritan of a species which has no living representatives for photography or sculpture...
...glance at Emmanuel of the seventeenth century throws interesting light on the influences acting and reacting upon the contemporary "younger generation." Founded ostensibly to train orthodox ministers, Emmanuel tended more and more to rear Puritans and Calvinists. Chaderton, its first master, while maintaining his connection with the Church of England, was one of the most respected and most powerful supporters of the Puritan ideals. So eloquent and absorbing were his sermons that at the end of one two-hour session, he was greeted by shouts of "For God's sake, sir, go on, go on," from his student audience...
This strong Puritan tendency at Cambridge, and particularly at Emmanuel College, disregarded by the sensible Elizabeth was a source of much disturbance to King James. The worthy king after paying two visits to his completely loyal and orthodox University at Oxford, finally came to Cambridge, where all the colleges except Emmanuel painted their buildings, and re-gravelled their walks in his honor. In spite of this cordial reception the king issued orders that no one should receive a degree until he had signed the three. Articles of the High Church doctrine. How John Harvard, John Cotton, Thomas Hooker and other...
...examples of lyric poetry. In Comus, which Milton wrote next, we see the theme of temptation and the disciplinary power of temptation, which ran through all of his later works." Professor Lowes also showed that in Milton we see a long conflict between his appreciation of beauty and his Puritan attitude toward beauty...
...public 47 Workshop performance on February 19, "brings before the public eye, a section of the country which until the last few years has been completely isolated from the adjoining regions. The Dutch farmers of the New York Catskills came to this country at the same time as the Puritan fathers, and like them came with strict religious views. They settled on the West bank of the Hudson in the Catskills, far from the regular routes of travel and business, keeping their religious views and old customs and speech long after the Puritans...