1.35 New England's First Fruits

Harvard College 1643, Illuminated Education, Essential, Interconnected.

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“Fair Harvard! we join in thy Jubilee throng,
And with blessings surrender thee o’er
By these Festival-rites, from the Age that is past,
To the Age that is waiting before.
O Relic and Type of our ancestors’ worth,
That hast long kept their memory warm,
First flow’r of their wilderness! Star of their night!
Calm rising thro’ change and thro’ storm.”

~ Samuel Gilman, Harvard Class (1811); first verse of "Fair Harvard", the alma mater of Harvard University, written for Harvard's 200th anniversary (1836)

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Here is an excellent piece by C. J. Hodge et al. titled ‘Materializations of Puritan Ideology at seventeenth-century Harvard College.’ It excellently summarizes Harvard College’s initial ideological framework after its inception in the 1600s.

Happy Reading!

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