Training for the Ministry at Harvard (1922), p. 1.

History of the School Although the existing Theological School was organized in 1922, being formed by the affiliation of the Harvard Divinity School and Andover Theological Seminary, instruction in theology has been given in Harvard College from its very beginning. Indeed, one of the leading purposes of the founders of Harvard was the training of men for the ministry as appears in the earliest printed reference to the College, published in 1643: --After God had carried us safe to New England, and wee had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, rear'd convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civill government: One of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministery to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust. The differentiation of the Divinity School from the College was very gradual, but the development of a distinctive professional school of theology began in 1816, and the Divinity Faculty was organized in 1819. The constitution of the School prescribed that every encouragement be given to the serious, impartial, and unbiased investigation of Christian truth, and that no assent to the peculiarities of any denomination of Christians shall be required either of the instructors or students. Andover Theological Seminary, founded in 1808 at Andover, Massachusetts, was throughout the nineteenth century one of the best known theological schools in the country. In 1908 it was

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