Word: puritans
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...campus. I never understood the appeal of the ha-ha-funny "1638" on the John Harvard Statue. And what about the three-year-old "Anne Bradstreet" gate outside Canaday? Unveiled as part of a "25 Years of Women in Harvard Yard" celebration in 1997, a nearby plaque quotes its Puritan namesake in the gilded letters of her prose: "I came into this Country, where I found a new World and new manners at which my heart rose." Inspirational--until you realize that the powers-that-be seem to be trying to pull a fast one on us. I came across...
...Puritan New England offered few outlets for fun; throughout the region, Harvard Commencement was known as a bacchanalian celebration, the great holiday of the Commonwealth...
...strict Puritan society, Commencement was a rare chance to celebrate, and residents of surrounding towns mobbed Cambridge...
...Baccalaureate sermon then became called the Baccalaureate address, dropping the last vestiges of Puritan preaching...
...English professor was the Puritan scholar Perry Miller, with whom Coles developed a close relationship while an undergraduate...