Anglicanorthodoxy
Puritan Board Freshman
Now I know there are strong Reformed seminaries, but why are there no truly Reformed undergraduate colleges? Harvard, Yale, Calvin, Hope, and Hampden-Sydney all used to be pretty strong Reformed colleges. Now they've all pretty much abandoned their Christian/Reformed foundations, and swerved to the Left socially and theologically.( some becoming totally secular) I'm applying to college this year, and I did a TON of research to try and find the right place. My college search has pretty much ended, and I've created a college list. I'm applying to 3 Christian colleges, and one secular college. All of the colleges I'm looking at have major issues, and I'll have to compromise wherever I go. It saddens me when I see a place like Harvard.( which was founded by devout Christian men) In my view Harvard was a strong Christian school until the middle of the 19th century, and it was still a culturally Christian elite gentlemens school until the 1960s. This may be a controversial view, but I believe that Harvard( and the entire Ivy League) died when they threw away the last shred of tradition they had left, and started admitting women. Now, let me be clear. I am NOT saying that this was the only cause of the secularization of the Ivy League, and I am NOT saying that women should not go to college. I don't have an issue with women going to college.( although I am a strong supporter of traditional gender roles, and VERY anti-Feminist) However, all of the Ivy League colleges were founded as all-male Christian schools, and I feel that's how they should've stayed. I know several people who attended Harvard and Yale when they were still men's colleges.( these guys attended in the 50s, and are very old now) When I ask them what the colleges were like back then, they all tell me that while there were a few slightly Liberal professors, the general vibe of both Harvard and Yale in the 50s was pretty socially conservative. When the Ivys bowed the knee to the Feminists, it opened the door for everything else that now go on at the colleges.( radical Feminism, the LGBT perversion, the obsession with "equality", etc) The same thing happened to Oxford and Cambridge( both used to be traditional Anglican men's colleges) Would Harvard or Oxford have closed if they had decided to remain all-male( they had plenty of money, so I think they would've been fine) I've thought about this for a long time while looking at colleges. I currently attend an all-male prep school, but I went to mediocre public schools K-9. At the public schools I attended, the academics were terrible, there was constant disorder, the dress was very immodest( a lot of very short skirts) and there was a pretty large homosexual club.At the all-male school I currently attend, it's pretty much the exact opposite. I'm getting a strong classical education, we have a strict dress code with uniforms, there's a very strict code of conduct, and the environment is very socially/theologically conservative( it's a Traditional Catholic school, but about 40-45% of the student body is Protestant) My point is that it's a lot harder to have Liberalism and degeneracy at an all-male school than a co-ed school. Now I'm not sure what I'll do for college. I wish there were just one Reformed/ Christian gentlemens college out there that provides a Classical education ( Harvard used to be)Maybe one of the really strong Reformed seminaries should start offering undergraduate degrees in the Liberal Arts( although I know it would put an additional financial burden on them) I don't know what the majority of PB posters think about gender roles, and I've been called all sorts of names on other Christian forums for my views, but I remain staunchly opposed to co-education. Here's an interesting article I read about Harvard.
http://www.trinityfoundation.org/journal.php?id=190 .
http://www.trinityfoundation.org/journal.php?id=190 .
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