Word: seventeenth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earliest Commencement days, as of the early College, was largely chaparoned by theology--the presence of a formidable portion of the local clergy caused those first occasions to be rather pious and somber. But the joyous aspects of graduation increased steadily and by the end of the seventeenth century, commencement had become the main spectacle of the New England...
...England in his rich metaphor of an errand into the wilderness. Seeing a play on the word "errand," he has explained how the first Puritan settlers came to America running one sort of errand, for a higher power--the Puritan Church in England--and how they ended the seventeenth century running, necessarily, an errand that was its own cause and justification...
...antiquarian interest? A brochure, first printed in England in 1901, republished in New York in 1903, is now fairly well known to have been written by Mr. G. Lowes Dickinson, the distinguished Hellenist, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Purporting to be Letters From a Chinese Official,on its seventeenth page is this...
...tally was captain Taylor's eighteenth goal and gave him the team scoring lead with 31 points. Johnston's assist was his seventeenth of the season--a phenomenal number for a defenseman...
Heimert currently teaches a course in seventeenth century religious literature, centering on Puritan writings and the response to them in England and American...