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...becomes the tragic hero of the play. The part is here entrusted to Don Murray, who does make an earnest attempt. He starts off all right; but as soon as the role begins to make heavier demands, his shortcomings are evident. In his second-act colloquy with the Reverend Hale, Proctor has an exceedingly important remark: "Is the accuser always holy now?" Murray hurries over this so that the idea is all but lost...
...Reverend Mr. Fithian, he recalls that the serenaders "were hearty" and one of them later was accused of "breaking, and in the warmth of his heart... entering the lodging room of buxom Kate [not further identified]." Fithian attributes this assault to "a plentiful use of these vigor-giving waters." As a result, the young man "was urged, he was compelled, by the irresistible call of renewed nature...
...student cheers. All three stories of Nassau Hall were grandly illuminated for the occasion, with tallow dips in every window casting a glow that could be seen for miles around. The students' pride in the occasion was undoubtedly enhanced by the knowledge that their own president, the Reverend John Witherspoon, took part in the congressional deliberations last week. He forcefully told wavering delegates that the country is, in his words, "not only ripe for the measure [independence] but in danger of becoming rotten for the want...
...than oppose the tide of revolution, Dr. Witherspoon spared the College of New Jersey from the chaos that has recently enveloped campuses with less enlightened administrators. King's College in New York is still splitting its president's salary between two men-the president pro tempore, the Reverend Benjamin Moore, and the president de jure, the Reverend Myles Cooper. An ardent Loyalist, Cooper has been residing in England since he escaped from an angry mob of Patriots last year by climbing over the college fence and fleeing half-dressed to the Hudson's River bank, where...
Dartmouth College was similarly embroiled last winter when its president, the Reverend Eleazar Wheelock, was charged with speaking disrespectfully of the Congress and Colonies. After a thorough investigation, however, the Hanover and Lebanon Committees of Safety not only cleared Wheelock of the charges but praised him for his efforts to convert the neighboring Indians to the cause of the Colonies...