Harvard College Is Established
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: North American Series
- Categories: Education
- Subcategories: Colonialism, Colonies, Settlements, Teaching, Teachers
- Curriculum: American Colonial History (1607-1775)
- Geographical Location: Massachusetts, New England
- Date: May 30-31, 1650
Article abstract: The birth of higher education and the foundation for public education.
Summary of Event
In New England’s First Fruits, the famous tract extolling the virtues of New England to possible supporters in the old country, the Puritans proclaimed that one of their first concerns had been “to advance Learning and perpetuate it to Posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate Ministry to the Churches, when our present Ministers shall be in the Dust.” Because the Puritan church’s tenets emphasized interpretation and discussion...
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