...founded for the education and training of clergy. The Puritans of New England formed Harvard in 1636, "dreading to leave an illiterate Ministry to the Churches,...when our present Ministers shall lie in the Dust." Yale College was formed in 1701, a reaction in part to the perceived liberalism at Harvard. The College...

...Harvard ... in service to the ministry: An early brochure (ca. 1643) proclaimed Harvard's mission: "To advance Learning and perpetuate it to posterity;...to leave an illiterate Ministry to the Churches." www.harvard.edu. 21 "the slicks": ExP, 119. 21 "who were eager to sell my birthright at a penny a line":...

...to cultivate a learned clergy. The founders of Harvard College, for example, sought to avoid leaving "an illiterate Ministry to the Churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the Dust."1 Many colleges first pursued this mission in undergraduate studies in the arts and sciences;...

...school's own archives: "After God had carried us safely to New England, and we had built our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient...when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." Harvard's "Rules and Precepts" (1646) included the following: "Every one shall consider the main end...

...clergy. In the early seventeenth century, once the Puritans established a colony at Massachusetts Bay, "[O]ne of the next things we longed for, and looked...Churches, when our present Ministers shall lie in the Dust."1 With this motivation they founded Harvard College in 1636. They also founded "a fair Grammar...

...to keep its heritage alive, as we can read in an early (1643) mission statement by Harvard College: "One of the next things we longed for and looked after...churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust."10 Their hope that they would not be succeeded by an illiterate ministry in later America has,...

...livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship and settled civil government; one of the next things longed for, and looked after was to advance learning,...churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust..."291 "Just about all of these schools are so secularized today that it is hard to picture them...

...established to fulfill an English Puritan belief that to serve God and one's fellow man to the fullest meant "to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity;...when our present ministers shall lie in the dust" (Morison 1935, 539). However, in a sense, Harvard was also the country's first liberal arts college...

...founded for the education and training of clergy. The Puritans of New England formed Harvard in 1636, "dreading to leave an illiterate Ministry to the Churches,...when our present Ministers shall lie in the Dust." Yale College was formed in 1701, a reaction in part to the perceived liberalism at Harvard. The College...

...objective of Harvard's seventeenth-century founders, who (in their words, which Young quoted) "dreaded to leave an illiterate ministry to the Churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." Since 1840, Young continued, "the proportion of college graduates entering the ministry has been steadily...