Word: puritans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Puritan forefathers fought one sort of bigotry with another. Let us not imitate them." --New York...
...many members of the regiment, and not many citizens of the neighborhoods which the regiment will invade in the course of its Sunday adventures, still hold to the Puritan idea of Sunday in all its ancient rigor. But there are still a great many on both sides who would regret to see the distinction between this day and the rest wiped out, or even to see the American Sunday become indistinguishable from the Continental Sunday. Whether this idea is a prejudice, a sentiment, or a religious principle, it deserves our respect; and we shall not recommend the regiment...
...Regatta, and will be one mile and a half in length. The other races of the Regatta will be: First Single Sculls, for the Farragut Challenge Cup; Second Single Sculls; First Double Sculls, for the Schuylkill Challenge Cup; First Four Sculls (Centipedes); First Four-Oared Sculls, for the Puritan Challenge Cup; Special Four-Oared Shells for the United States Navy Cup, open only to crews from colleges and boat clubs eligible as "Second" Fours; First Eight-Oared Shells, for the Stewards' Challenge Cup; Special Inter-Club Second Eight-Oared Shells; Junior Collegiate Eight-Oared Shells, for the New England Challenge...
...comes forward with a suggestion that Thanks giving be celebrated on the last Saturday rather than the last Thursday of November. It is doubtful whether any large number of persons could be induced to lay profane hands upon an institution which has been fixed since the days when the Puritan fathers waxed thankful for bounteous crops. But as far so college men are concerned, they would undoubtedly favor a week-end holiday which would allow many of them to eat turkey in their own homes, and save the inevitable anti-climax of the following blue Friday and Saturday...
There are just two moods which would make "The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife" and "Androcles and the Lion" impossible for the spectator: one is the mood of the "Follies" and the other is the mood possessed by what Cyril Harcourt has termed "Consumptive Puritans." Both plays are rare treats,--but only to those who do not carry the above-mentioned attitudes with them to the Wilbur Theatre. Some may claim that it doesn't take a sick Puritan to turn pale when Shaw's burlesque of early Christianity really gets under way. That would be true...