 | Lynn Historical Society (Lynn, Mass.) - Local history - 1913 - 596 pages
...published in London in 1643 we find stated the motive that actuated the colonists in founding Harvard : " One of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and to perpetuate it to posterity ; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1915 - 216 pages
...original aim of the New England college is stated in a tablet on the West Gate of Harvard University : " After God had carried us safe to New England and we...civil government, one of the next things we longed 3 f or_ anoMooked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an... | |
 | Brown University - 1915 - 328 pages
...colonial colleges, was the education of the ministry. Harvard has expressed it very definitely : " After God had carried us safe to New England, and...our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, rear'd convenient places for God's worship, and settled the Civill Government; One of the next things... | |
 | Isaac Sharpless - Universities and colleges - 1915 - 248 pages
...the name of its greatest benefactor. In 1643 an old account explains the purpose of the foundation: "After God had carried us safe to New England and...our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, rear'd convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things... | |
 | Kate Stephens - Kansas - 1920 - 264 pages
...fly to heaven". Puritans, that is, developed a passion for founding schools and teaching children. "After God had carried us safe to New England, and...reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled tte civil government, one of the next things we longed for, and looked after, was to advance learning... | |
 | Ellwood Patterson Cubberley - Education - 1920 - 918 pages
...PROVIDED NECESSARIES FOR OVR LIVELI HOOD REARD CONVENIENT PLACES FOR GODS WORSHIP \ND SETLED THE- CIYILL GOVERNMENT ONE OF THE NEXT THINGS WE LONGED FOR AND LOOKED AFTER WAS TO ADVANCE LE\RNING AND PERPETVATE IT TO POSTERITY DREADING TO LEAVE AN ILLITER \TE MINISTER TO THE CHVRCHES V/HEN... | |
 | Edward Sandford Martin - 1920 - 504 pages
...his name, which has now become so illustrious. The colonial record is quaint and touching:—'After God had carried us safe to New England and we had builded our homes, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled... | |
 | Joseph Hodges Choate, Edward Sandford Martin - Lawyers - 1920 - 480 pages
...his name, which has now become so illustrious. The colonial record is quaint and touching:—'After God had carried us safe to New England and we had builded our homes, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled... | |
 | Edwin Emery Slosson - Education - 1921 - 366 pages
...establishment of the United States. 1 Steiner, op. cit., p. 82. CHAPTER IV THE COLONIAL COLLEGE After wee had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our...livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and setlcd the Civill Government, one of the next things wee longed for and looked after was to advance... | |
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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... 
