LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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they established Harvard
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they made school mandatory
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they had kids go to school seven days a week
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they had a year-round school calendar
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Detailed explanation-1: -Harvard University possesses the title of America’s oldest learning institution, founded in 1636. At its inception, this university’s name was “New College, ” and its purpose was mainly to educate clergy.
Detailed explanation-2: -Harvard is a founding member of the Association of American Universities and a preeminent research university with “very high” research activity (R1) and comprehensive doctoral programs across the arts, sciences, engineering, and medicine according to the Carnegie Classification.
Detailed explanation-3: -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". Harvard was established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.