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...academic knowledge.For the Puritans who founded the College, separating God from academia was unthinkable. “The whole notion of a secular entity was unheard of,” says Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes.Indeed, Harvard’s “Rules and Precepts?? of 1646 hold that “the maine end of [a student’s] life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life…the only foundation of all sound knowledge and Learning.” By the 19th century, Harvard...

Author: By Anna K. Kendrick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard’s Secularization | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

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