What happened first?

[dejr_8]

The founding of Harvard or the Salem Witch Trials?

 

[daughter_of_amid_chaos]

founding of harvard

 

[GeorgeG]

The Salem witch trials were around 1692... don't know about Harvard.

 

[arminnie]

I'm a Stanford grad (turned down Harvard) - who cares.

 

[DisGirlAllie]

Founding of Harvard: 1636

Salem Witch Trials: 1692

Harvard came before

 

[dejr_8]

This really isn't a quiz thread it is more about provoking thought.

Just think, Harvard the height of enlightenment was founded ~ 60 years before the Salem Witch Trials which are the complete absence of enlightenment

 

[walden]

This really isn't a quiz thread it is more about provoking thought.

Just think, Harvard the height of enlightenment was founded ~ 60 years before the Salem Witch Trials which are the complete absence of enlightenment

Well, it is a very provoking thought, but why would you think Harvard College (now university as well as college) was back in the 1630s, or is today, the height of enlightenment?

 

[monkeyboy]

Salem Witch Trials?

Original waterboarding

 

[daughter_of_amid_chaos]

This really isn't a quiz thread it is more about provoking thought.

Just think, Harvard the height of enlightenment was founded ~ 60 years before the Salem Witch Trials which are the complete absence of enlightenment

Read the novel "Harvard Yard" by William Martin. He covers this topic.

 

[momrek06]

Read the novel "Harvard Yard" by William Martin. He covers this topic.

DH is a Harvard grad!


DOAC, looking at your siggy, both my DS' grad PC. One '04 B.A. and '08 M.A. and the other B.A. '08!

 

[rie'smom]

I'm in a movie in the Harvard library.

 

[pearlieq]

This really isn't a quiz thread it is more about provoking thought.

Glad to hear that. I was worried Google was broken.