Founded in 1636 with the motto 'Veritas pro Christo et Ecclesia' ('Truth for Christ and God'), which university is America's oldest?

The piousness of Harvard's founding motto (long since shortened to 'Veritas') was consistent with the school's original mission: to train Puritan ministers. Or, as the Massachusetts legislature put it, "to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust."

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