History Harvard University.v 2. Josiah Quincy, LLD. Camb. JO. 1840.gs
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- History Harvard University.v 2. Josiah Quincy, LLD. Camb. JO. 1840.gs
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History Harvard University.v 2. Josiah Quincy, LLD. Camb. JO. 1840.gs
Author: Harvard University Divinity School Faculty & Scholars
Year: 1916
Harvard Theological Studies.Divinity School Faculty & Scholars 10vols. 1916-1921 Harvard University Divinity School Faculty & Scholars "The origins of Harvard Divinity School and of the study of theology at Harvard can be traced back to the very beginning of Harvard College, when an initial fund of 400 pounds from the General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony established the College in 1636. The founders of Harvard recorded their reasons for establishing this center of learning: 'After God had carried us safe to New England and we had builded our houses, 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 looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.' Because of the founders' desire to perpetuate a learned ministry, preparation for religious learning and leadership continued to hold a position of importance as Harvard grew. The first named professorship in the College, and the oldest in the country, was the Hollis Professorship of Divinity. Endowe