Oh, Harvard, You Fostered Founders of Our Union and a Regiment that Bled to Preserve It — Where Art Thou?

<![CDATA[“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. And as we were thinking and consulting how to effect this work, it pleased God to stir up the heart of one Mr. Harvard…”]]>