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...Reverend Mr. Samuel H. Miller and State Senators Charles J. Innes and John E. Powers will judge the event...
Hampered by Puritan prudery, the early presidents like the Reverend Increase Mather imposed what now appear to be ludicrous regulations. For lying, a student would be fined one shilling, a good sum. But for eating plum cake, students would be fined 20 shillings! Somehow, Mather had gotten the notion that eating plum cake was an abomination unto the Lord. His regulation, furthermore, was religiously upheld by the authorities until just before the Revolution, and naturally enough, caused students to sneak plum cake more than ever. Student complaints about the food in general never ceased...
...grandfadder was de Reverend Barton Dowden, a Presbyterian parson. And he had a great-grandfadder who was a manager of Plantation Vyfuisheid on de West Coast-a pure white...
...girls accused people at random during their hysterical trances. At first the victims were generally people of eccentric habits--many were not church members and the Puritan community had small sympathy for them. But as the craze spread, no one seemed safe from accusation. Even a minister, the Reverend George Burroughs, a Harvard graduate of the Class of 1670 and the former pastor of the Salem church, was seized. Soon scores of persons were under suspicion and no end was in sight. The matter became the concern of the whole colony and a special tribunal came to Salem to hear...
Then, on the evening of May 14, 1692, a ship docked in Boston Harbor. The sturdy figure of the Reverend Increase Mather, President of Harvard College, strode ashore, accompanied by Sir William Phips, newly-appointed governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony. For four long years, Mather had been in England, leading the fight to secure a new charter for the colony. At last his mission had ended and he was ready to resume his Harvard duties again, as well as his numerous ministerial tasks...