Today starts a new Sunday Post called Today, part of the new Christian History category. There will be also be occassional posts and special placing at different times on the Home page.

Today – 1636

Massachusetts Puritans found a college, America’s first institution of higher education, in New Towne (Cambridge), just six years after founding the town. Later named for donor John Harvard, the college is intended to train ministers.Authority for the date: http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Harvard_University