Harvard Mulls Dropping a Line From School Song Referring to Its Christian Heritage

Veronica Neffinger : May 10, 2017
Christian Headlines

Harvard was founded in 1636 by the Massachusetts Legislature. It was named after its first benefactor, John Harvard, who was a Puritan minister. 

(Cambridge, MA)—[Christian Headlines] Prestigious university Harvard is considering dropping a line from its ceremonial song because the line references the university's Christian beginnings. (Photo: Facebook/via Christian Headlines)

According to Charisma News, the song "Fair Harvard" includes these ending lyrics:

"Let not moss-covered Error moor thee at its side,
As the world on Truth's current glides by,
Be the herald of Light, and the bearer of Love,
Till the stock of the Puritans die."

The song is sung when students begin their studies at the university and when they graduate. Now, however, Harvard's Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging wants to create a new ending to "Fair Harvard" because they say the reference to Puritans "suggests that the commitment to truth, and to being the bearer of its light, is the special province of those of Puritan stock," which they say could be viewed as racist since the Puritans were of Anglo-Saxon descent.

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