Harvard & Early Years Learning!

In America no other English-speaking colonizers established higher education as soon after their arrival as did the Puritans. Only six years after their arrival in Massachusetts Bay, the General Court voted four hundred pounds 'towards a school or college.' Thus established, Harvard College was kept alive during its early years partly through the sacrifice of farmers, who contributed wheat to support teachers and students. 

p 157 Worldly Saints: The Puritans as They Really Were