Shortly after Harvard College was founded in 1636, the trustees of the school wrote, “Let every student be plainly instructed, and earnestly pressed to consider well [that the] maine end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ … and therefore to lay Christ in the bottome, as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning.” In the 350 or so years since, Harvard (as well as most other schools, colleges, and universities) has moved far in a purely secular direction.