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

And seeing the Lord only giveth wisedome, Let every one seriously
set himselfe by prayer in secret to seeke it of him, Prov. 2, 3."

Harvard University Student Handbook, 1642