...provided 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...when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." During this year another governing board had been incorporated which, in a few years, became very closely...

...necessaries for our liveli-hood, rear'd convenient places for God's worship, and settled the Civil Government: One of the next things we longed for,...when our present Ministers shall lie in the Dust." This statement, inscribed on one of the gates of Harvard Yard, can give the wrong impression, namely,...

...especially in religious matters. The impulse behind the Puritans' founding of Harvard College was their "dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust."27 Ebenezer Pemberton, in a funeral sermon delivered on the death of the Honorable John Walley,...

...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." ^Richard Lewontin, "Marxists and the University," New Political Science 1 (Fall-Winter 1979-80): p....

...education has been on a long journey of 350 years from serving God to serving Mammon. Harvard was founded "to advance learning and perpetuate it to Posterity;...when our present Ministers shall lie in the Dust." 1 Now it is said that "education [is] viewed by all three groups—business, academia, and government—as...

...to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministery [sic] to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust. And as we were thinking and consulting how to effect this great work, it pleased God to stir up the...

...learned ministers was a particularly strong motive — they "dread[ed] to leave an illiterate Ministery to the Churches, when our present Ministers shall lie in the Dust" (Miller and Johnson 1963). But the commonwealth also needed leaders of other sorts, and the college...

...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 Harvard, 432-33. Morison...

...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 Fruits, 1643," in American Higher Education: A Documentary History," ed. Richard...

...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,...when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." Serving God and helping lay people in that service was the reason Harvard came into existence. But...