Harvard College 1643, Illuminated Education, Essential, Interconnected.
“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)
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.
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