...to keep its heritage alive, as we can read in an early (1643) mission statement by Harvard College: "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...

...oft-quoted passage reads: After God had carried us safely to New England, and we had built our homes, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and selected the civil government, one of the next things we longed for, and looked after, was to advance...

...through the Centuries: HisHace in the History of Culture, p. 1 entrance of Harvard is the message: After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had built our houses, provided necessities for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship...