[rface]

good column. Bill O'Reilly would like it.

[Cacique]

bump

[sure_fine]

I guess they are all giving up their Christmas break, and later Easter break to stay there and study

[Neoliberalnot]

Harvard was started by a Christian Pastor in, I think, 1639.

[Coleus]

Harvard University and Theological Seminary

Harvard was the first center of higher learning in the United States. It is located in Cambridge MA, just across the Charles River from Boston. The first class was started in 1628, and nine of these graduated in 1642.

The growing liberal climate of Harvard reached a point at which conservative Congregationalists became outraged. In 1805, the Unitarian Henry Ware (senior) became Professor of Theology at Harvard, and this soon lead to the establishment of Andover as a bastion of orthodoxy.

[Deut28]

Hard to believe the university’s first benefactor and namesake was a clergyman, and that it was founded as a Puritan learning institution.

It’s first “mission statement” was: “To advance Learning and perpetuate it to Posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate Ministry to the Churches.”