A Contrast

"Let every student be plainly instructed, and earnestly pressed, to consider well that the maine end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternall life, Jn. 17:3 and therefore to lay Christ at the bottome, as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and Learning."


Mission statement of Harvard College, 1643

The Puritans, Perry Miller and Thomas Johnson, (New York: American Books, 1938) p. 702.



"In a contentious Feb. 26 deposition between Dr. Biederman, a Harvard professor, and lawyers for the states, he was asked what rank he held at Harvard.



“Full professor,” he answered.


“What’s after that?” asked a lawyer, Fletch Trammell.


“God,” Dr. Biederman responded.


“Did you say God?” Mr. Trammell asked.


“Yeah,” Dr. Biederman said."

New York Times, March 20, 2008.




Times change.