This country’s oldest college opened in 1636, taking the name Harvard three years later in honor of a Puritan minister who gave it money and library books. The early Harvard curriculum was more wide-ranging than you might expect for a school meant to train pastors, including physics and mathematics as well as biblical languages, theology, and ethics. Bu…
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