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...pilgrimage nevertheless visited historic Cambridge sites, beginning at the Charles River which is where famed Puritan minister Thomas Hooker and his company arrived before establishing their meeting house two years later...
Following the trek, the group gathered at, their church, located on 11 Garden St., for an 11 a.m. worship and then a 2 p.m. lecture by George Hunston Williams, Hollis Professor of Divinity. Williams spoke about Hooker, who was succeeded by another famous Puritan leader. Thomas Shepard...
...Saturn: glittering, snorting the intergalactic dust. Touches of the high crass mingled with a sort of metaphysical flash. Stevie Wonder, for example, wore a cumulously quilted white satin tuxedo whose upswept lapels formed great angel wings. The costume had the curious effect of making him look like a Puritan headstone...
Robinson's decision is the second personnel move in the English Department announced in the last week. On Friday, Columbia Puritan specialist Sacvan Bercovich said that he had accept a Harvard tenure offer...
Bloomfield added that Bercovich "has just revolutionized the field of American literature." Bloomfield cited in particular the Columbia scholar's work in realizing the importance of Puritan typology, that is, the way those early settlers felt they were "fulfilling the Biblical pattern...