Word: puritans
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...second University crew will leave Thursday on the Federal Express for Philadelphia where it will take part in the American Henley Regatta on Saturday. The crew has been entered in two of the races, the Stewart Challenge Cup and the Puritan Challenge Cup, over the Henley course of one mile and 550 yards on the Schuylkill river. It is probable that the crew will row a practice race of one mile in the Basin today against the Technology and the Union Boat Club crews. The eight so far has shown exceptional speed for the Henley distance and should do well...
George Kneeland Munroe '10, of New York, N. Y., died in the Puritan Hotel, Boston, last night. He had been ill for over a month from complications arising out of a mastoid operation...
...trend of American custom, observable at Harvard as in every other community, is away from the old Puritan strictness. Sooner or later we shall reach the point where any reasonable means of exercise or recreation that is permissible on week-days will not be thought out of place on Sunday. We believe that Sunday tennis playing would not be repugnant either to the city of Cambridge or to the University, and that it would be welcomed by many students for whom Sunday is often a day of deadly dullness...
...Harvard Chapter of Delta Sigma Rho, a national society of college debaters, will hold its first annual banquet this evening at the Hotel Puritan, Boston. Judge A. P. Stone '93, Professor E. H. Warren '95, of the Harvard Law School, and R. W. Kelso '04, instructor in the Department of English, will speak informally after the dinner...