...necessaries for our livelihood Reard convenient places for Gods worship And setled the civill government 87 One of the next things we longed for And looked after...ministry To the churches when our present ministers Shall lie in the dust New Englands First Fruits Passing into the college yard, two very ancient brick...

...university training. Morgan, Godly Learning, 96. As "New England's First Fruits" put it in 1643, they were "dreading to leave an illiterate Ministry to the Churches, when our present Ministers shall lie in the Dust." From "New England's First Fruits," 1643, reproduced in Morison, Founding of...

...Youth in Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1749). 19. Harvard College was established, said its founders, "to advance Learning and perpetuate it to Posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate Ministery to the Churches, when our present Ministers shall lie in the Dust." ("New England's First...

...available to minister to the citizens of Massachusetts. In words carved on Harvard's gates, the College was "To advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity,...ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." Serving God and helping lay people in that service was the reason Harvard came...

...purpose is rooted in the articles of incorporation. Harvard University, for example, was founded in 1636 "to advance Learning and perpetuate it to Posterity;...Ministry to the Churches, when our present Ministers shall lie in the Dust."1 'This text was the first formal statement of purpose by the founding fathers...

...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...

...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...

...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, and looked after...Ministry to the Churches, when our present Ministers shall lie in the Dust." Similarly, the training of physicians and other health professionals may promote...

...necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after...ministry to the churches when our present ministers lie in the dust. 34 In May of 1775, the president of Harvard, Samuel Langdon, addressed the Provincial...

...necessities for our livelihood, rear'd convenient places for God's worship, and settled the Civil Government, one of the next things we 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,...