...1636, when the population of Massachusetts Bay could hardly have been more than 10,000, the Puritans, "dreading to leave an illiterate Ministry to the Churches,...when our present Ministers shall lie in the Dust," legally established a college which began instruction two years later. The fact that this fear of an...

...revealed similar goals in its initial period. Harvard's original logo, for instance, included the phrase "to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate minister to the churches when our present [European trained] ministers shall die in the Dust." Some...

...provided necessaries for our liveli-hood, rear'd convenient places for Gods worship and settled the Civili Government; One of the next things we longed for,...when our present Ministers shall lie in the Dust." Similarly, the training of physicians and other health professionals may promote health and the relief...

...safe to New England and we had builded our houses, provided necessities for our livelihood, rear'd convenient places for God's worship, and settled the...longed for and looked after was to advance learning." In the three-fold system, the college part descended from the school of the prophets under Elijah,...

...provided necessaries for our livelihood, rear'd convenient places for God's worship, and setled the Civill Government: One of the next things we longed for, and looked after was to advance Learning and to perpetuate it to Posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate Ministry to the Churches, when our present...

...new stage in the evolution of academic values. A 1643 % 2 m1 pamphlet stated that Harvard's mission was "to advance Learning and perpetuate it to Posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate 0) (0 n C CD t• JE <*> .2 ra ~o .E a) Ministry to the Churches." In 1708, amid much dissent, John...

...Christian theology in the original languages lay behind the colony's famous injunction that the college "advance learning and perpetuate it to Posterity;...when our present Ministers shall lie in the dust." But Harvard was also to produce "masters for grammar schools and educated gentlemen for the magistracy."18...

...carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelibood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled...after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to prosperity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall...

...chronicler of New England wrote that after shelter, a place of worship, and a governance structure, "one of the next things we longed for, and looked...to advance Learning and perpetuate it to Posterity" (Rudolph 1962). "And then," Rudolph writes, "it would seem, almost as a matter of course, there was...

...When Harvard was founded, the reason for founding the school included the Puritan determination not "to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust (New England's First Fruits). One rule observed in the college was: Let every student be plainly instructed,...