...was the school's first president. On the wall at the main entrance to the university is inscribed: 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...

...college in America for about sixty years. Its founding is described in New England's First Fruits (1643): after God had carried us safe to New England, and...had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livlihood, rear'd convenient places for Gods worship, and settled the Civil Government; one of the...

...shaking continued about four minutes. The earth was unquiet twenty days after by times."—Winth. Jour. 1 "After God had carried us safe to New England, and...of the next things we longed for, and looked after, %>as, to advance learning, and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry...

...prayer in secret to see Christ as Lord and Master. Above Harvard's gates are etched today these words: "After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had built our houses, provided necessities for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship,...

...through the Centuries: HisHace in the History of Culture, p. 1 entrance of Harvard is the message: After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had built our houses, provided necessities for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship...

...oft-quoted passage reads: After God had carried us safely to New England, and we had built our homes, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and selected the civil government, one of the next things we longed for, and looked after, was to advance...