July 1, 2005
A Theological Education
During the summer months before I entered Harvard College in the fall of 1953, I read The Education of Henry Adams. The author's sardonic recollection of his undergraduate years at Harvard from 1854 to 1858 was not reassuring: Harvard "taught little, and that little ill," Adams wrote, and "the entire work of the four years would have been easily put into the work of any four months in after life." The best he could say was that Harvard "left the mind open, free from bias, ignorant of facts,
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