Education
"Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well the main 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 in the bottom 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 seek it of Him (Prov. 2, 3). Every one shall so exercise himself in reading the Scriptures twice a day that he shall be ready to give such and account of his proficiency therein." - "A History of Harvard University", Benjamin Pierce, (Cambridge, MA: Brown, Shattuck, and Company, 1833), Appendix, p. 5, school rules in 1636.
"All persons of what degree forever residing at the College, and all undergraduates ... shall constantly and seasonably attend the worship of God in the chapel, morning and evening. ... All the scholars shall, at sunset in the evening preceding the Lord's day, lay aside all their diversions and ... it is enjoined upon every scholar carefully to apply himself to the duties of religion on that day." - "The Laws of Harvard College", (Boston: Samuel Hall, 1790), pp. 7-8
Mottos
"For the Glory of Christ" - "The Harvard Graduates' Magazine", (Manesh, WI: George Barna Publishing Co.), September 1933, p. 8, from the article "Harvard Seals and Arms" by Samuel Eliot Morison.
"For Christ and the Church" - "The Harvard Graduates' Magazine", (Manesh, WI: George Barna Publishing Co.), September 1933, p. 8, from the article "Harvard Seals and Arms" by Samuel Eliot Morison.
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