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...strip down too often. A 2007 survey by Harvard University Health Services found that just over half of Harvard students had engaged in sexual intercourse at least once. This astronomically high number should alarm us—have we completely forgotten our fair college’s Puritan roots? Aside from the obvious ethical and moral questions premarital sex raises, between-the-sheets workouts tonight are a surefire way to guarantee we’re tired tomorrow. Indeed, some students are even engaging in sex on weeknights. Enter any House laundry room and you may find that the complementary condom...
Protestant history has included periods of enthusiastic talk about sex, as well as chilly silence. A famous 1623 Puritan sermon made the case for "mutual [conjugal] dalliances for pleasure's sake," presumably as a distinction from Roman Catholicism's procreation-only rule. In the 1970s, several conservative Christian leaders responded to the popularity of Alex Comfort's classic how-to The Joy of Sex by reminding their flocks that whoopee for whoopee's sake was not doctrinally prohibited; Focus on the Family founder James Dobson and Left Behind co-author Tim LaHaye each put out manuals for married couples...
...fixed ideological position, relying instead on intuition. Critics put it about that he lacked intellectual inquisitiveness; in fact, he made a constant effort to refresh his thinking and was no ignoramus. He particularly liked Chekhov's short stories. When not bingeing on vodka, he was a bit of a puritan in social relations. He abhorred unpunctuality: his favorite gift to anyone was a wristwatch. Aides who made lewd comments quickly lost their posts...
...John Winthrop, the Puritan leader and first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, was involved in the slave trade and donated books valued at ?20 to Harvard in 1658, marking the first time Harvard received money marked by ties to slavery...
...With biting references to the divine mission originally articulated by Harvard’s Puritan forefathers, their putatively misguided attempt to search for “truth” rather than “truths”—as well as the presumption of James Conant, who presided over Harvard in the mid 1900s, to address his letter to his 21st-century successor as “My dear Sir”—Faust appeared to discard the tradition of the university’s founders as unfit according to current standards...