HARVARD UNIVERSITY MOTTO HISTORY: A BRIEF SHORT OF FACTS & TRUTH
Harvard University used to have it's motto as 'Truth for Christ and the Church' (Truth (Veritas) for Christ (Christo) and the Church (Ecclesiae) was adopted in 1692 and was a part of their original seal as seen in photos [LEFT]. In 1650, the Harvard Corporation chose In Christi Gloriam, a Latin phrase meaning "For the glory of Christ."
Now it's only VERITAS.
The original college building (1638-1670) Harvard Corporation charter (1650) With some 17,000 Puritans migrating to New England by 1636, Harvard was founded in anticipation of the need for training clergy for the new commonwealth, a "church in the wilderness".
John Harvard was a Cambridge-educated English minister who immigrated to New England. He caught tuberculosis within a year of his arrival in Boston, and donated 400 books and half his estate to the “colledge” in “Newetowne” before his death in 1638 at the age of 30. Like many, no records of his birth survive.
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THE CRIMSON: A History of God at Harvard https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/1/28/lee-history-god-harvard/