Harvards Rules And Precepts
Harvard’s “Rules and Precepts”
(1646): “Every one shall consider the
main end of his life and studies to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal
life.”
Timothy Dwight, President of
Yale (1814): “Christ is the only, the
true, the living way of access to God.”
Columbia University (1754):
“The chief thing that is aimed at in
this college is to teach and engage
children to know God in Jesus Christ.”
John Witherspoon, first
president of Princeton: “Cursed by all learning that is contrary to the cross
of Christ.”
William and Mary was established “that the Christian faith might be
propagated.”
Dartmouth was founded to train
missionaries to the Indians.