Harvard... aren’t these guys supposed to be smart?
How can Harvard professors really become wise and intelligent? Go back and study the founders and the purposes and motto of Harvard!
Harvard University 1636, was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from donation of property and the library of Rev. John Harvard. Originally called the College of Cambridge, Harvard was the first college in America, being established only 16 years after the landing of the Pilgrims. The declared purpose of the college was:
“To train a literate clergy.”
The rules and precepts that were observed at Harvard, September 26, 1642, stated: (Here I’m only giving rule #2
(out of 8 rules)
2. Let every Student be plainly instructed, and earnestly pressed to consider well, the maine end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life, John 17:3 and therefore to lay Christ on the botteme, as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and Learning. And seeing the Lord only giveth wisdom; let every one seriously set himself by prayer in secret to seeke it of Him Proverbs 2:3.
Prior to the Revolution, ten of the twelve presidents of Harvard were ministers, and according to reliable calculations, over fifty percent of the seventeeth-century
Harvard graduates became ministers. It is worth of note that 106 of the first 108 schools in America were founded on the Christian faith.
Harvard College was founded in “Christi Gloriam” and later dedicated “Christo et Ecclesiae.” The founders of Harvard believed that:
“All knowledge without Christ was vain.”
The word Veritas, still on the college seal, means divine truth. The motto of Harvard was officially:
“For Christ and the Church.”
Can we imagine what would happen on the Harvard campus if these founding principles were taught and applied today!