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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...

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