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Search in the past for a source for the motto used on the Harvard seal has been without avail. But according to a paper recently read before the Colonial Society in Boston there are two incidents which might have inspired Harvard men to adopt the phrase "Christo et Ecclesiae." The first possible influence came from a Dutch academy, the University of Franeker established in 1585. Here, during the first half century of its existence, the words "Christo et Ecclesia" were used at its dedication, in its first law of government, as its coat-of-arms, in an indictment...
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...Harvard Divinity School graduate recently wrote a communication to the Transcript complaining of the position and rights of the Divinity men compared with graduates of the other schools. He first declared that "Harvard University was founded to educate clergymen for the ministry, that it has the proud motto 'Christo et Ecclesiae,'" and asks "why is it that the Board of Overseers so discriminates against the regular graduates of the Harvard Divinity School...
During the year 1894-95 two public meetings of the St. Paul's Society were held. At the first the Rt. Rev. H. C. Potter, D. D., of New York, spoke on "Christo et Ecclesiae"; at the second, Rev. J. O. S. Huntington, O. H. C., of New York, Spoke on "The Church of the English-speaking Race...
Bishop William Hare of South Dakota spoke last night at the invitation of the St. Paul's Society, in Sever 11, taking as his subject "Christo et Ecclesiae." He said, the most striking thing about these words is that they are in the dative case. It is not merely two words, "Christ and the Church," but the dative case is used, grammarians tell us, to name one for whom something is done or to whom something is given. So we are to work for Christ and His Church...