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.infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vevent" style="width: 22em; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary" style="font-size: 125%; font-weight: bold;"><i>John Harvard</i></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Harvard_statue.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A bronze sculpture, on a tall granite plinth, of a man sitting in a chair with an open book in his lap. The statue as a whole is darkly weathered, but the toe of the figure's left shoe is shiny as if from frequent rubbing." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/John_Harvard_statue.jpg/265px-John_Harvard_statue.jpg" decoding="async" width="265" height="296" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/John_Harvard_statue.jpg/398px-John_Harvard_statue.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/John_Harvard_statue.jpg/530px-John_Harvard_statue.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1622" data-file-height="1809" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">"He<span class="nowrap"> </span>... gazes for a moment into the future, so dim, so uncertain, yet so full of promise, promise which has been more than realized", said <a href="/wiki/George_Edward_Ellis" title="George Edward Ellis">George Ellis</a> <span class="nowrap">at the dedication. <sup id="cite_ref-gazes_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gazes-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Artist</th><td class="infobox-data attendee"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Chester_French" title="Daniel Chester French">Daniel Chester French</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(sculptor)</span></li> <li><div style="text-indent: -1.6em; margin-left: 1.6em;">Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company <span style="font-size:85%;">(foundry)</span></div></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Year</th><td class="infobox-data">1884<span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtend itvend">1884</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Type</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Bronze_sculpture" title="Bronze sculpture">Bronze</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Dimensions</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">Figure: 71 by 38.6 by 65 in</span><br /><span class="nowrap">(180 by 98 by 165 cm)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Plinth: 61 by 72 by 12 in</span><br /><span class="nowrap">(155 by 183 by 30 cm)</span><sup id="cite_ref-smithsonian_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-smithsonian-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Location</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Yard" title="Harvard Yard">Harvard Yard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts" title="Cambridge, Massachusetts">Cambridge, Massachusetts</a>, US</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>John Harvard</b></i> is an 1884 <a href="/wiki/Bronze_sculpture" title="Bronze sculpture">sculpture in bronze</a> by <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Chester_French" title="Daniel Chester French">Daniel Chester French</a> at <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts" title="Cambridge, Massachusetts">Cambridge, Massachusetts</a>. It honors clergyman <a href="/wiki/John_Harvard_(clergyman)" title="John Harvard (clergyman)">John Harvard</a> (1607–1638), whose substantial deathbed<sup id="cite_ref-HMagJanFeb2000_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HMagJanFeb2000-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> bequest to the "schoale or Colledge" recently undertaken by the <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Bay_Colony" title="Massachusetts Bay Colony">Massachusetts Bay Colony</a> was so gratefully received that the Colony resolved "that the Colledge agreed upon formerly to bee built at Cambridg shalbee called <a href="/wiki/Harvard_College" title="Harvard College">Harvard Colledge</a>." <sup id="cite_ref-charter_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-charter-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There being nothing to indicate what John Harvard had looked like, French took inspiration from a Harvard student <a href="/wiki/Collateral_descendant" class="mw-redirect" title="Collateral descendant">collaterally descended</a> from an early Harvard president. </p><p>The statue's inscription‍—‌<span style="font-size:85%;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r920966791">.mw-parser-output span.smallcaps{font-variant:small-caps}.mw-parser-output span.smallcaps-smaller{font-size:85%}</style><span class="smallcaps"><span class="nowrap">JOHN HARVARD<span class="nowrap"> </span> • </span><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span class="nowrap">FOUNDER<span class="nowrap"> </span> • </span> 1638</span></span>‍—‌is the subject of an <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/arch#English-knowing" class="extiw" title="wikt:arch">arch</a> <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/polemic#English-attack" class="extiw" title="wikt:polemic">polemic</a><sup id="cite_ref-ST_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ST-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> traditionally recited for visitors, questioning whether John Harvard justly merits the honorific <i>founder</i>. According to a Harvard official, the founding of the college was not the act of one but the work of many, and John Harvard is therefore considered not <i>the</i> founder, but rather <i>a</i><span class="nowrap"> </span>founder, of the school, though the timeliness and generosity of his contribution have made him the most honored of these. </p><p>Tourists often <a href="/wiki/Statue_rubbing" title="Statue rubbing">rub</a> the toe of <i>John Harvard</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s left shoe for luck in the mistaken belief that doing so is a Harvard student tradition.<sup id="cite_ref-toes_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-toes-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Composition">Composition</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Statue_of_John_Harvard&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Composition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Clio_LACMA_M.88.91.271d.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Clio_LACMA_M.88.91.271d.jpg/190px-Clio_LACMA_M.88.91.271d.jpg" decoding="async" width="190" height="287" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Clio_LACMA_M.88.91.271d.jpg/285px-Clio_LACMA_M.88.91.271d.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Clio_LACMA_M.88.91.271d.jpg/380px-Clio_LACMA_M.88.91.271d.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1390" data-file-height="2100" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Clio_(Hendrik_Goltzius)" title="Clio (Hendrik Goltzius)">Hendrik Goltzius' <i>Clio</i></a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Edward_Winslow.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Edward_Winslow.jpg/220px-Edward_Winslow.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Edward_Winslow.jpg/330px-Edward_Winslow.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Edward_Winslow.jpg 2x" data-file-width="412" data-file-height="500" /></a><figcaption>Portrait (artist unknown) of <a href="/wiki/Edward_Winslow" title="Edward Winslow">Edward Winslow</a></figcaption></figure> <p><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> described the statue at its unveiling: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The young clergyman is represented sitting, holding an open [book] on his knee. The costume is the simple clerical garb of the seventeenth century<span class="nowrap"> </span>... low shoes, long, silk hose, loose knee breeches, and a tunic belted at the waist, while a long cloak, thrown back, falls in broad, picturesque folds.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT18_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT18-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p></blockquote> <p>John Harvard's gift to the school was <a href="/wiki/Pound_sterling" title="Pound sterling">£</a>780 and‍—‌perhaps more importantly<sup class="nowrap"><a href="#CITEREFM">[M]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-potter1_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-potter1-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>‍—‌his 400-volume scholar's library:<sup id="cite_ref-potter2_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-potter2-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Partly under the chair, within easy reach, lie a pile of books.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT18_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT18-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p></blockquote> <p>That he had died of <a href="/wiki/Tuberculosis" title="Tuberculosis">tuberculosis</a>, at about age thirty, was one of the few things known about John Harvard at the time of the statue's composition; as dedication orator <a href="/wiki/George_Edward_Ellis" title="George Edward Ellis">George Edward Ellis</a> put it: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Gently touched by the weakness which was wasting his immature <span class="nowrap">life,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </span> he rests for a moment from his <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/converse#English-noun_discourse" class="extiw" title="wikt:converse">converse</a> with wisdom on the printed page, and raises his contemplative eye to the spaces of all wisdom.<sup id="cite_ref-gazes_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gazes-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p></blockquote> <p>Historian <a href="/wiki/Laurel_Ulrich" class="mw-redirect" title="Laurel Ulrich">Laurel Ulrich</a> suggests that <i>John Harvard</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s general composition may have been inspired by <a href="/wiki/Clio_(Hendrik_Goltzius)" title="Clio (Hendrik Goltzius)">Hendrik Goltzius' engraving of Clio</a> (the Greek muse of history), and that the figure's collar, buttons, tassel, and mustache may have been taken from a portrait of <a href="/wiki/Plymouth_Colony" title="Plymouth Colony">Plymouth Colony</a> Governor <a href="/wiki/Edward_Winslow" title="Edward Winslow">Edward Winslow</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ireland_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ireland-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Statue_of_John_Harvard&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti 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img{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}</style><div class="thumb tmulti tleft"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:129px;max-width:129px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:127px;max-width:127px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Harvard_Statue_right_side_of_head.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/John_Harvard_Statue_right_side_of_head.jpg/125px-John_Harvard_Statue_right_side_of_head.jpg" decoding="async" width="125" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/John_Harvard_Statue_right_side_of_head.jpg/188px-John_Harvard_Statue_right_side_of_head.jpg 1.5x, 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class="thumbcaption">Harvard student <a href="/wiki/Sherman_Hoar" title="Sherman Hoar">Sherman Hoar</a> was the inspiration for <i>John Harvard</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s face.</div></div></div></div> <p>On June 27, 1883, at the <a href="/wiki/History_and_traditions_of_Harvard_commencements" title="History and traditions of Harvard commencements">Commencement Day</a> dinner of Harvard alumni a letter was read<sup class="nowrap"><a href="#CITEREFM">[M]</a></sup> from "a generous benefactor, General <a href="/w/index.php?title=Samuel_James_Bridge&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Samuel James Bridge (page does not exist)">Samuel James Bridge</a>, an adopted alumnus of the college":<sup id="cite_ref-MassHist_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MassHist-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"> <p><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps">To the <a href="/wiki/President_and_Fellows_of_Harvard_College" title="President and Fellows of Harvard College">President and Fellows of Harvard College</a>.</span><br /><i>Gentlemen,</i> — I have the pleasure of offering you an ideal statue in bronze, representing your founder, the Rev. John Harvard, to be designed by Daniel C.<span class="nowrap"> </span>French of Concord<span class="nowrap"> </span>... I am assured that the same can be in place by June<span class="nowrap"> </span>1, 1884.<sup class="nowrap"><a href="#CITEREFM">[M]</a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <p>Bridge specified an "ideal" statue because there was then (as now)<sup id="cite_ref-HMagJanFeb2000_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HMagJanFeb2000-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> nothing to indicate what John Harvard had looked like; thus when French began work in September he used Harvard student <a href="/wiki/Sherman_Hoar" title="Sherman Hoar">Sherman Hoar</a> as inspiration for the figure's face. "In looking about for a type of <a href="/wiki/Pilgrims_(Plymouth_Colony)" title="Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony)">the early comers to our shores</a>," he wrote, "I chose a lineal descendant of them for my model in the general structure of the face. He has more of what I want than anybody I know." <sup id="cite_ref-AZ_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AZ-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (Through his father <a href="/wiki/Ebenezer_Rockwood_Hoar" class="mw-redirect" title="Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar">Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar</a>‍—‌chairman<sup class="nowrap"><a href="#CITEREFM">[M]</a></sup> of Harvard's <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Board_of_Overseers" title="Harvard Board of Overseers">Board of Overseers</a>‍—‌Sherman Hoar was descended from a brother of Harvard's fourth president <a href="/wiki/Leonard_Hoar" title="Leonard Hoar">Leonard Hoar</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as from <a href="/wiki/Roger_Sherman" title="Roger Sherman">Roger Sherman</a>, a signer of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="United States Declaration of Independence">United States Declaration of Independence</a> and the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Constitution">United States Constitution</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ireland_11-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ireland-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) </p><p>The commission weighed heavily on French even as the figure neared completion. "I am sometimes scared by the importance of this work. It is a subject that one might not have in a lifetime," wrote the sculptor‍—‌who thirty years later would create the <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_(1920_statue)" class="mw-redirect" title="Abraham Lincoln (1920 statue)">statue of Abraham Lincoln</a> for the Lincoln Memorial‍—‌"and a failure would be inexcusable. As a general thing, my model looks pretty well to me, but there are dark days."<sup id="cite_ref-richman_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-richman-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>French's final model was ready the following May and realized in bronze by the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Henry-Bonnard_Bronze_Company&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company (page does not exist)">Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company</a> over the next several months. The cost was reportedly more than $20,000<sup id="cite_ref-Crimson1984_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Crimson1984-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (equivalent to $700,000 in 2023). </p><p>The statue was installed‍—‌"looking wistfully into the western sky", said Harvard president <a href="/wiki/Charles_William_Eliot" title="Charles William Eliot">Charles W. Eliot</a><sup class="nowrap"><a href="#CITEREFM">[M]</a></sup>‍—‌at the western end of Memorial Hall on the triangular city block then known as the Delta <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1033199720">.mw-parser-output div.crossreference{padding-left:0}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><span role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference">(see <a href="/wiki/Memorial_Hall_(Harvard_University)" title="Memorial Hall (Harvard University)">Memorial Hall</a>)</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-move_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-move-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At its October 15, 1884 unveiling<sup class="nowrap"><a href="#CITEREFM">[M]</a></sup> Ellis gave "a singularly felicitous address, telling the story of the life of John Harvard, who passes so mysteriously across the page of our early history." <sup id="cite_ref-bacon_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bacon-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Harvard_statue_old_site_Memorial_Hall_3.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/John_Harvard_statue_old_site_Memorial_Hall_3.jpg/350px-John_Harvard_statue_old_site_Memorial_Hall_3.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="244" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/John_Harvard_statue_old_site_Memorial_Hall_3.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="348" /></a><figcaption><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Original site west of <a href="/wiki/Memorial_Hall_(Harvard_University)" title="Memorial Hall (Harvard University)">Memorial Hall</a></div></figcaption></figure> <p>In 1920 French wrote<sup id="cite_ref-alumni_1924_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-alumni_1924-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-lowell_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lowell-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to Harvard president <a href="/wiki/Abbott_Lawrence_Lowell" class="mw-redirect" title="Abbott Lawrence Lowell">Abbott Lawrence Lowell</a> desiring that the statue be relocated; in 1924<sup id="cite_ref-ST_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ST-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Crimson1984_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Crimson1984-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-move_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-move-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it was moved from Memorial Hall (then the college dining hall‍—‌a <i><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Lampoon" class="mw-redirect" title="Harvard Lampoon">Harvard Lampoon</a></i> drawing showed <i>John Harvard</i> dismounting his <a href="/wiki/Plinth" class="mw-redirect" title="Plinth">plinth</a>, chair in tow, and holding his nose because he "couldn't stand the smell of 'Mem' any longer")<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2012)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> to its current location on the west side of Harvard Yard's <a href="/wiki/University_Hall_(Harvard_University)" title="University Hall (Harvard University)">University Hall</a>, facing <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Hall_(Harvard_University)" class="mw-redirect" title="Harvard Hall (Harvard University)">Harvard Hall</a>, <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Hall_(Harvard_University)" title="Massachusetts Hall (Harvard University)">Massachusetts Hall</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Johnston_Gate" class="mw-redirect" title="Johnston Gate">Johnston Gate</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bunting_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bunting-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later that year the <i>Lampoon</i> imagined the frustrations of the metallic, immobile <i>John Harvard</i> surrounded by Harvard undergraduates—<sup id="cite_ref-Crimson1984_23-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Crimson1984-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"> <p><i>Great men arise<span class="nowrap"> </span><span class="nowrap"> </span>/<span class="nowrap"> </span><span class="nowrap"> </span>Before my eyes<span class="nowrap"> </span><span class="nowrap"> </span>/<span class="nowrap"> </span><span class="nowrap"> </span>From yonder pile I founded</i><br /><i>While I must sit<span class="nowrap"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span class="nowrap"> </span><span class="nowrap"> </span>/<span class="nowrap"> </span><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span></span>Quite out of it<span class="nowrap"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span class="nowrap"> </span><span class="nowrap"> </span><span class="nowrap"> </span><span class="nowrap"> </span><span class="nowrap"> </span>/<span class="nowrap"> </span><span class="nowrap"> </span></span>My jealousy unbounded</i> </p> </blockquote> <p>—though twelve years later <a href="/wiki/David_McCord" title="David McCord">David McCord</a> portrayed the founder as satisfied in his stationarity:<sup id="cite_ref-bethell_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bethell-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"> <p><i>"Is that you, John Harvard?"<span class="nowrap"> </span><span class="nowrap"> </span>/<span class="nowrap"> </span><span class="nowrap"> </span><span class="nowrap"> </span><span class="nowrap"> </span>I said to his statue.</i><br /><i>"Aye, that's me," said John,<span class="nowrap"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span class="nowrap"> </span>/<span class="nowrap"> </span><span class="nowrap"> </span></span>"And after you're gone."</i> </p> </blockquote> <p>A photograph of the statue appeared on the cover of the May 5, 1941 issue of <i><a href="/wiki/Life_(magazine)" title="Life (magazine)">Life</a></i> magazine.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sometime in the 1990s tour guides began encouraging visitors to emulate a "student tradition"‍—‌nonexistent‍—‌of rubbing the toe of <i>John Harvard</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s left shoe for luck, so that while the statue as a whole is darkly weathered the toe now "gleams almost throbbingly bright, as though from an excruciating inflammation of the bronze." <sup id="cite_ref-rubforluck_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rubforluck-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is, however, traditional for seniors, as they process to graduation exercises on Commencement Day (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033199720"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><span role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference">see <a href="/wiki/History_and_traditions_of_Harvard_commencements" title="History and traditions of Harvard commencements">History and traditions of Harvard commencements</a></span>), to remove their caps as they pass.<sup id="cite_ref-Crimson1984_23-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Crimson1984-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-regalia_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-regalia-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The statue is depicted on the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service" title="United States Postal Service">United States Postal Service</a>'s 1986 John Harvard stamp (part of its <a href="/wiki/Great_Americans_series" title="Great Americans series">Great Americans series</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-stamp_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stamp-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti"><div class="thumb tmulti tnone center"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:860px;max-width:860px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:115px;max-width:115px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Harvard_Statue_Harvard_Logo.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/John_Harvard_Statue_Harvard_Logo.jpg/113px-John_Harvard_Statue_Harvard_Logo.jpg" decoding="async" width="113" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/John_Harvard_Statue_Harvard_Logo.jpg/170px-John_Harvard_Statue_Harvard_Logo.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/John_Harvard_Statue_Harvard_Logo.jpg/226px-John_Harvard_Statue_Harvard_Logo.jpg 2x" data-file-width="515" data-file-height="651" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption text-align-center">Harvard College<br />seal<sup id="cite_ref-seal_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-seal-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:206px;max-width:206px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Harvard_Statue_Books_Under_Chair.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/John_Harvard_Statue_Books_Under_Chair.jpg/204px-John_Harvard_Statue_Books_Under_Chair.jpg" decoding="async" width="204" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/John_Harvard_Statue_Books_Under_Chair.jpg/306px-John_Harvard_Statue_Books_Under_Chair.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/John_Harvard_Statue_Books_Under_Chair.jpg/408px-John_Harvard_Statue_Books_Under_Chair.jpg 2x" data-file-width="935" data-file-height="665" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption text-align-center">Harvard's gift included his <span class="nowrap">400-volume scholar's</span> library.</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:232px;max-width:232px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Harvard_University_(7180414476).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Harvard_University_%287180414476%29.jpg/230px-Harvard_University_%287180414476%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="230" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Harvard_University_%287180414476%29.jpg/345px-Harvard_University_%287180414476%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Harvard_University_%287180414476%29.jpg/460px-Harvard_University_%287180414476%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1010" /></a></span></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:192px;max-width:192px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:JohnHarvardStatue_ToeRub.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/JohnHarvardStatue_ToeRub.jpg/190px-JohnHarvardStatue_ToeRub.jpg" decoding="async" width="190" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/JohnHarvardStatue_ToeRub.jpg/285px-JohnHarvardStatue_ToeRub.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/JohnHarvardStatue_ToeRub.jpg/380px-JohnHarvardStatue_ToeRub.jpg 2x" data-file-width="977" data-file-height="745" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption text-align-center">Tourists (if not students) rub <span class="nowrap"><i>John Harvard</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s</span> toe <span class="nowrap">for luck.<sup id="cite_ref-rubforluck_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rubforluck-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:105px;max-width:105px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Harvard_Statue_Emmanuel_College_Logo.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/John_Harvard_Statue_Emmanuel_College_Logo.jpg/103px-John_Harvard_Statue_Emmanuel_College_Logo.jpg" decoding="async" width="103" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/John_Harvard_Statue_Emmanuel_College_Logo.jpg/155px-John_Harvard_Statue_Emmanuel_College_Logo.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/John_Harvard_Statue_Emmanuel_College_Logo.jpg/206px-John_Harvard_Statue_Emmanuel_College_Logo.jpg 2x" data-file-width="413" data-file-height="583" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption text-align-center">Emmanuel<br />College seal</div></div></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Seals_and_inscriptions">Seals and inscriptions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Statue_of_John_Harvard&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Seals and inscriptions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:JohnHarvardShinyFoot24June07.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/JohnHarvardShinyFoot24June07.jpg/260px-JohnHarvardShinyFoot24June07.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="380" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/JohnHarvardShinyFoot24June07.jpg/390px-JohnHarvardShinyFoot24June07.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/JohnHarvardShinyFoot24June07.jpg/520px-JohnHarvardShinyFoot24June07.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1574" data-file-height="2303" /></a><figcaption><i>John Harvard</i> guarding the University Hall offices of the Dean of Harvard College (the location calculated, the <i>Harvard Crimson</i> once said, "according to one theory, in order to keep all light out of the Dean's office").<sup id="cite_ref-crime_1934_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-crime_1934-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Note Harvard College seal on plinth.</figcaption></figure> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output 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#202122;background-color: #F5F6CE;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <p>The facts as to John Harvard's relation to the founding of the College<span class="nowrap"> </span>... are entirely compatible with the inscription on John Harvard's statue. There is no myth to be destroyed. </p> </blockquote> <div style="padding-bottom: 0;"><cite class="right-aligned" style="">Jerome Davis Greene<sup id="cite_ref-Greene_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Greene-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lincoln_statue,_Lincoln_Memorial.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Lincoln_statue%2C_Lincoln_Memorial.jpg/260px-Lincoln_statue%2C_Lincoln_Memorial.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="235" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Lincoln_statue%2C_Lincoln_Memorial.jpg/390px-Lincoln_statue%2C_Lincoln_Memorial.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Lincoln_statue%2C_Lincoln_Memorial.jpg/520px-Lincoln_statue%2C_Lincoln_Memorial.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1112" data-file-height="1004" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_(1920_statue)" class="mw-redirect" title="Abraham Lincoln (1920 statue)">French's 1920 <i>Abraham Lincoln</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Laurel_Ulrich" class="mw-redirect" title="Laurel Ulrich">Laurel Ulrich</a> notes that "statues of great men are not often seated".<sup id="cite_ref-ireland_11-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ireland-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>The monument's six-foot<sup id="cite_ref-HarvIllus1899_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HarvIllus1899-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> granite <a href="/wiki/Plinth" class="mw-redirect" title="Plinth">plinth</a> is by Boston architect <a href="/wiki/Charles_Howard_Walker" title="Charles Howard Walker">Charles Howard Walker</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Crimson1984_23-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Crimson1984-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On its southern side (the side to the viewer's right), in bronze, is the seal of John Harvard's alma mater, the University of Cambridge's <a href="/wiki/Emmanuel_College,_Cambridge" title="Emmanuel College, Cambridge">Emmanuel College</a>; on the northern side is what Ellis called "that most felicitously chosen of all like <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/device#English-heraldry" class="extiw" title="wikt:device">devices</a>, the three open books and the <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/veritas#Latin-truth" class="extiw" title="wikt:veritas">veritas</a></i> of Harvard. The pupil of the one institution was the founder of the other, transferring learning from its foreign home to this once wilderness scene." <sup id="cite_ref-MassHist_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MassHist-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-seal_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-seal-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the rear are the words <span style="font-size:85%;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps">GIVEN BY<span class="nowrap"> </span> • <span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span>SAMUEL JAMES BRIDGE<span class="nowrap"> </span> •  <span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span>JUNE<span class="nowrap"> </span>17, 1883</span></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The face of the plinth is inscribed (in letters originally <a href="/wiki/Gilding" title="Gilding">gilt</a>)<sup class="nowrap"><a href="#CITEREFM">[M]</a></sup> <span style="font-size:85%;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps"><span class="nowrap">JOHN HARVARD<span class="nowrap"> </span> • </span><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span class="nowrap">FOUNDER<span class="nowrap"> </span> • </span> 1638</span></span>‍—‌words "hardly read before some smartass guide breezily informs the unsuspecting visitor that this is, after all, the 'Statue of the Three Lies<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>" (as Douglas Shand-Tucci put it)<sup id="cite_ref-ST_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ST-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> because (as is ritually related to freshmen and <span class="nowrap">visitors):<sup id="cite_ref-toes_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-toes-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </span> </p> <dl><dd><ul><li>the statue is not a likeness of <span style="font-size:85%;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps">JOHN HARVARD</span></span>;</li> <li>it was the <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_General_Court" title="Massachusetts General Court">Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony</a>‍—‌not John Harvard‍—‌which first voted "to give <span class="nowrap">400£</span> towards a schoale or Colledge", preempting any claim for John Harvard as <span style="font-size:85%;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps">FOUNDER</span></span>; and</li> <li>the General Court's vote came in 1636, not in the inscription's <span style="font-size:85%;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps">1638</span></span>‍—‌the latter being merely the year of John Harvard's bequest to the school.</li></ul></dd></dl> <p>However (Shand-Tucci continues) "the idea of the three lies is at best a fourth, and by far the greater falsehood," <sup id="cite_ref-ST_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ST-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as detailed in a 1934 letter to the <i><a href="/wiki/The_Harvard_Crimson" title="The Harvard Crimson">Harvard Crimson</a></i> from the secretary of the <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Harvard Corporation">Harvard Corporation</a> and director of the school's then-upcoming <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Tercentenary_celebration" title="Harvard Tercentenary celebration">Tercentenary Celebration</a>: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"> <p>The facts as to John Harvard's relation to the founding of the College are not at all in dispute nor can it be said that the statue in front of University Hall does any violence to them. No likeness of John Harvard having been preserved, the statue [is an "ideal" representation]. </p><p>If the founding of a university must be dated to a split second of time, then the founding of Harvard should perhaps be fixed by the fall of the president's gavel in announcing the passage of the vote of October 28, 1636 <i>[see <a href="/wiki/History_of_Harvard_University" title="History of Harvard University">History of Harvard University</a>].</i> But if the founding is to be regarded as a process rather than as a single event [then John Harvard, by virtue of his bequest "at the very threshold of the College's existence and going further than any other contribution made up to that time to ensure its permanence"] is clearly entitled to be considered a founder. The General Court<span class="nowrap"> </span>... acknowledged the fact by bestowing his name on the College. </p><p> These are all familiar facts and it is well that they should be understood by the sons of Harvard. They are entirely compatible with the inscription on John Harvard's statue. There is no myth to be destroyed.<sup id="cite_ref-Greene_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Greene-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Pranks">Pranks</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Statue_of_John_Harvard&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Pranks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The statue became the target of pranks soon after its unveiling. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1884_tarring">1884 tarring</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Statue_of_John_Harvard&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 1884 tarring"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1884, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Harvard_Crimson" title="The Harvard Crimson">The Harvard Crimson</a></i> reported that, "Some ingenious persons covered the John Harvard statue last night with a coat of tar. The same persons presumably, marked a large '87 on the wall at the entrance of the chapel," <sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in 1886 the <i>Crimson</i> mentions a further incident: "A graduate contributor to the Advocate suggests that the editors of the college papers ferret out the authors of the small disturbances, such as the painting of the John Harvard statue." <sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1890_painting">1890 painting</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Statue_of_John_Harvard&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 1890 painting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following a May 31, 1890 Harvard athletic victory, front-page headlines in the <i>Boston Morning Globe</i> declared: "Vandalism at Harvard; statue of John Harvard and college buildings daubed with red paint by drunken students; seniors and faculty indignant<span class="nowrap"> </span>... Riotous Mob Ruled the Campus." <sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The next day the <i>Globe</i> further reported that a Harvard student observing graffiti-removal efforts "declared that no Harvard man ever daubed the impious phrase, 'To <span class="nowrap">h—l</span> with Yale.' He was of the opinion that a Harvard man would at least soften the profanity by varnishing it with Latin or Greek<span class="nowrap"> </span>... Two detectives who were requested to ferret out the perpetrators paid little heed to the discussion on swear words, but kept their eyes on several impressions that had been made on the paint when it was fresh. One thought they were made by a dog's paws, and as several students kept dogs the suspicion was magnified to the importance of a clue. A student, however, told the detectives that according to his view the impressions were made by barefoot boys walking on tip-toe." <sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Out-of-state newspapers reporting the outrage, and to a greater or lesser degree following the subsequent investigation, included (among many others): </p> <ul><li><i>The World</i> (New York, New York; June<span class="nowrap"> </span>2, p.<span class="nowrap"> </span>2): "A Jocular Outrage<span class="nowrap"> </span>— Harvard Students Exceed Decency in Celebrating."</li> <li><i>Evening Gazette</i> (Sterling, Illinois; June<span class="nowrap"> </span>2, p.<span class="nowrap"> </span>4): "Harvard Students on an Outrageous Tear.<span class="nowrap"> </span>— Slathers of Red Paint Used.<span class="nowrap"> </span>— The Fine Statue of the College Founder Ruined by the Crazy <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scapegrace#reckless_person" class="extiw" title="wikt:scapegrace">Scapegraces</a>."</li> <li><i>Fort Wayne Sentinel</i> (Fort Wayne, Indiana; June<span class="nowrap"> </span>2, p.<span class="nowrap"> </span>5): "The faculty will expel the criminals and persecute [<i>sic</i>] them if found."</li> <li><i>The Philadelphia Record</i>: "Painted Harvard Red<span class="nowrap"> </span>— Disgraceful Antics of Rum-Crazed Students.<span class="nowrap"> </span>— Cambridge is Horrified.<span class="nowrap"> </span>— The Faculty Bent on Vengeance<span class="nowrap"> </span>... Last night the whole college celebrated a wild orgie [<i><a href="/wiki/Sic" title="Sic">sic</a></i>]<span class="nowrap"> </span>... There were suppers, bonfires, <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fish-horn" class="extiw" title="wikt:fish-horn">fish-horns</a> and a general pandemonium; but, save the insane acts of two of the students, who, overcome with enthusiasm, deliberately threw their dress coats into the bonfire while dancing around the blaze, no great overt act was then commit<span class="nowrap">ted ...</span> It was during the small hours that the vandals were <span class="nowrap"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abroad#English-unconfined" class="extiw" title="wikt:abroad">abroad</a> ...</span> [<i>John Harvard</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s] face, hands, books, and shoes were bright crimson, and his clothes striped like a zebra." <sup id="cite_ref-record_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-record-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>Despite a mass meeting of outraged Harvard men (who insisted the culprits must be outsideers or, failing that, freshmen), the hiring of detectives, and an apparently facetious report that Harvard President <a href="/wiki/Charles_W._Eliot" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles W. Eliot">Charles W. Eliot</a> was unavailable for comment because he had "gone out in the woods to cut <a href="/wiki/Switch_(rod)" class="mw-redirect" title="Switch (rod)">switches</a>" (all <i>Globe,</i> June<span class="nowrap"> </span>3), on June<span class="nowrap"> </span>22 an anonymous contributor (<i>Globe</i>, p.<span class="nowrap"> </span>20) intimated that while "the faculty claim that they have not found out any of the men who did the 'fine art' work<span class="nowrap"> </span>... I saw the ringleader on class day showing two very pretty girls around the 'yard'." </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_incidents">Other incidents</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Statue_of_John_Harvard&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Other incidents"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In March 1934 Harvard athletes were suspected in the disappearance of <a href="/wiki/Yale" class="mw-redirect" title="Yale">Yale</a>'s "ugly bulldog mascot", <a href="/wiki/Handsome_Dan" title="Handsome Dan">Handsome Dan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-times_honors_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times_honors-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-harvard_alumni_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-harvard_alumni-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The dog was recovered a few days later, though not before the <i>Harvard Lampoon</i> had photographed him licking <i>John Harvard</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s boots,<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which had been smeared with hamburger.<sup id="cite_ref-harvard_alumni_47-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-harvard_alumni-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<a href="/wiki/Man_bites_dog_(journalism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Man bites dog (journalism)">"Dog licks man"</a>, a <i>Crimson</i> headline read.)<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>"Some years ago some students painted [the statue] <a href="/wiki/Crimson" title="Crimson">crimson</a> and our cops caught them red-handed", Deputy Chief of the Harvard University Police Jack W. Morse told <i>The Harvard Crimson</i> in 1984, adding "I've been waiting a long time to use that." <sup id="cite_ref-Crimson1984_23-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Crimson1984-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (Crimson is Harvard's <a href="/wiki/School_color" class="mw-redirect" title="School color">school color</a>.)<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As the statue's hundredth anniversary approached, <i><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Lampoon" class="mw-redirect" title="Harvard Lampoon">Harvard Lampoon</a></i> president <a href="/wiki/Conan_O%27Brien" title="Conan O'Brien">Conan O'Brien</a> predicted that "we'll probably stuff it with cottage cheese, maybe also with some chives." <sup id="cite_ref-Crimson1984_23-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Crimson1984-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "I think it’s creative but I wish students would direct their creative energies elsewhere," a Harvard maintenance official said in 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-crime_2002_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-crime_2002-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id=""Idealization"_dispute"><span id=".22Idealization.22_dispute"></span>"Idealization" dispute</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Statue_of_John_Harvard&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: "Idealization" dispute"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1844_GeorgeEdwardEllis_byFrancisAlexander_Harvard.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/1844_GeorgeEdwardEllis_byFrancisAlexander_Harvard.jpeg/180px-1844_GeorgeEdwardEllis_byFrancisAlexander_Harvard.jpeg" decoding="async" width="180" height="221" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/1844_GeorgeEdwardEllis_byFrancisAlexander_Harvard.jpeg/270px-1844_GeorgeEdwardEllis_byFrancisAlexander_Harvard.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/1844_GeorgeEdwardEllis_byFrancisAlexander_Harvard.jpeg/360px-1844_GeorgeEdwardEllis_byFrancisAlexander_Harvard.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="396" data-file-height="487" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/George_Edward_Ellis" title="George Edward Ellis">George Edward Ellis</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Robert_Charles_Winthrop.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Robert_Charles_Winthrop.jpg/180px-Robert_Charles_Winthrop.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="226" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Robert_Charles_Winthrop.jpg/270px-Robert_Charles_Winthrop.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Robert_Charles_Winthrop.jpg/360px-Robert_Charles_Winthrop.jpg 2x" data-file-width="419" data-file-height="525" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Robert_Charles_Winthrop" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Charles Winthrop">Robert C. Winthrop</a>, c.<span class="nowrap"> </span>1850</figcaption></figure> <p>The challenge of creating an idealized representation of John Harvard was discussed by Ellis at the October 1883 meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society:<sup id="cite_ref-MassHist_12-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MassHist-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>A very exacting demand is to be made upon the genius and skill of the artist<span class="nowrap"> </span>... The work must be wholly ideal, guided by a few suggestive hints, all of which are in harmony with grace, delicacy, dignity, and reverential regard. There is necessarily much that is unsatisfactory in a wholly idealized representation by art of an historical person of whose form, features, and <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lineament#English-facial" class="extiw" title="wikt:lineament">lineaments</a> there are no certifications. But the few facts [known with certainty] concerning Harvard are certainly helpful to the artist. </p></blockquote> <p>But Society president <a href="/wiki/Robert_Charles_Winthrop" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Charles Winthrop">Robert Charles Winthrop</a> harshly disapproved: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>It must be altogether a fancy sketch, a <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Tragedy_of_Hamlet,_Prince_of_Denmark/Act_3#counterfeit_presentment" class="extiw" title="s:The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark/Act 3">'counterfeit presentment,'</a>‍—‌to use Shakespeare's phrase,‍—‌and in more senses of the word than one<span class="nowrap"> </span>... [S]uch attempts to make portrait statues of those of whom there are not only no portraits, but no records or recollections, are of very doubtful desireableness<span class="nowrap"> </span>... Such a course tends to the confusing and confounding of historic truth and leaves posterity unable to decide what is authentic and what is mere invention<span class="nowrap"> </span>... It seems to me of very questionable expediency to get up a fictitious likeness of him and make up a figure according to our ideas of the man. </p></blockquote> <p>A year later, in his oration<sup class="nowrap"><a href="#CITEREFM">[M]</a></sup> before the unveiling of what he called "a <i><a href="/wiki/Simulacrum" title="Simulacrum">simulacrum</a></i><span class="nowrap"> </span>... a conception of what Harvard might have been in body and lineament, from what we know that he was in mind and in soul", Ellis answered Winthrop's criticism: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>This exquisite moulding in bronze serves a purpose for the eye, the thought, and sentiment, through the ideal, in lack of the real<span class="nowrap"> </span>... It is by no means without allowed and approved precedent, that, in the lack of authentic portraitures of such as are to be commemorated, an ideal representation supplies the vacancy of a reality. It is one of the fair issues between poetry and prose. </p><p>The wise, the honored, the fair, the noble, and the saintly, are never grudged some finer touches of the artist in tint or feature, which etherialize their beauty, or magnify their elevation, as expressed in the actual body,‍—‌the eye, the brow, the lip, the moulding of the mortal clay. To flatter is not always to falsify. </p> </blockquote> <p>Should there ever appear, however, </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>some authentic portraiture of John Harvard, the pledge may here and now be ventured, that some generous friend, such as, to the end, shall never fail our Alma Mater, notwithstanding her chronic poverty, will provide that this bronze shall be liquified again, and made to tell the whole known truth so as by fire. </p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Statue_of_John_Harvard&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Public_sculptures_by_Daniel_Chester_French" title="Public sculptures by Daniel Chester French">Public sculptures by Daniel Chester French</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_John_Bridge" title="Statue of John Bridge">Statue of John Bridge</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Statue_of_John_Harvard&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-gazes-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-gazes_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-gazes_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"> While <i>Memorial of John Harvard</i> <sup class="nowrap"><a href="#CITEREFM">[M]</a></sup> quotes Ellis as saying John Harvard "raises his contemplative eye to the spaces of all wisdom", the <i>Harvard Crimson</i> <sup id="cite_ref-Crimson1884_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Crimson1884-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> relates that Ellis imagined that the figure "gazes for a moment into the future".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-NYT18-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-NYT18_13-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NYT18_13-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1884/10/18/106163042.pdf">"The John Harvard Statue"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>The New York Times</i>. October 18, 1884.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=The+John+Harvard+Statue&rft.date=1884-10-18&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Ftimesmachine.nytimes.com%2Ftimesmachine%2F1884%2F10%2F18%2F106163042.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AStatue+of+John+Harvard" class="Z3988"></span> In quoting this passage the word <i>book</i> has been substituted for <i>Bible</i> per the unanimity of other sources,<sup class="nowrap"><a href="#CITEREFM">[M]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-american_art_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-american_art-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 279">: 279 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-national_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-national-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-magazine_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-magazine-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 522">: 522 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-leslie_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-leslie-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ireland_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ireland-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> all of which refer to the volume held by the figure as a <i>book</i> or <i>tome</i>, but not specifically a Bible. In the planning of the costume, "It was understood that Harvard was a clergyman educated at Cambridge, and, following as he did the fortunes of other clergymen who came to Massachusetts in the early period, he would be likely to be a <a href="/wiki/Puritan" class="mw-redirect" title="Puritan">Puritan</a> of their stamp,‍—‌that is to say, not a <a href="/wiki/English_Separatists" class="mw-redirect" title="English Separatists">Separatist</a>. Pictures represent the Puritan minister of that day as wearing a somewhat closely fitting cloak, covering perhaps a <a href="/wiki/Cassock" title="Cassock">cassock</a>, with a broad linen collar and a skull-cap. The narrow bands and the wig came in later. No mistake could be made in the garment worn over the lower part of the body." <sup id="cite_ref-MassHist_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MassHist-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <div class="paragraphbreak" style="margin-top:0.5em"></div> <p>That <i>John Harvard</i> is wearing a skullcap is frequently overlooked. "Edward T. Wilcox, A.M.<span class="nowrap"> </span>'49<span class="nowrap"> </span>... had a 38-year tenure at the College, during which he no doubt won many a highball with the following challenge [which he repeated during remarks at a 1974 ceremony honoring long-serving University employees]. 'How many of you would be prepared to bet one way or the other<span class="nowrap"> </span>... if I told you John Harvard is actually wearing a cap?<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>" <sup id="cite_ref-toes_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-toes-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="paragraphbreak" style="margin-top:0.5em"></div> <p>Other subtle details are a slight mustache, tassels at the collar, and "roselike decorations" on the shoes.<sup id="cite_ref-ireland_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ireland-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </span></li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Per <i>Memorial of John Harvard</i>,<sup class="nowrap"><a href="#CITEREFM">[M]</a></sup> Ellis spoke of illness threatening Harvard's "immature" life, but the <i>Crimson</i> reporter understood Ellis to be speaking of Harvard's "miniature" life.<sup id="cite_ref-Crimson1884_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Crimson1884-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <div class="paragraphbreak" style="margin-top:0.5em"></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:USA-John_Harvard1_cropped.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/USA-John_Harvard1_cropped.jpg/180px-USA-John_Harvard1_cropped.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="92" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/USA-John_Harvard1_cropped.jpg/270px-USA-John_Harvard1_cropped.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/USA-John_Harvard1_cropped.jpg/360px-USA-John_Harvard1_cropped.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3273" data-file-height="1675" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <p>"If I remember aright," French was quoted in 1899 as saying, John Harvard "is described as being 'reverend, godly, and a lover of learning,' and it is known that he died at an early age (about thirty) of <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/consumption#English-TB" class="extiw" title="wikt:consumption">consumption</a>, which gave a clue to his physique." (French's daughter wrote<sup id="cite_ref-ST_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ST-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of the figure's "beautiful, wasted hand<span class="nowrap"> </span>... the hands were thin and nervous"; Shand-Tucci<sup id="cite_ref-ST_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ST-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> mentions the "scrawny calves.") French continued, "It may possibly be of interest that my regular model for the statue, except the face, was a young Englishman, a graduate of <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">Oxford</a>, who was temporarily embarrassed financially and took this means of earning his bread." <sup id="cite_ref-HarvIllus1899_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HarvIllus1899-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </span></li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Hodges_Choate" title="Joseph Hodges Choate">Joseph Hodges Choate</a>, presiding at the dinner, "referred to the giver as 'a pious worshipper at Harvard's shrine, turning his face towards Mecca;' and, when the letter was read, the applause of the company compelled Mr. Bridge to make a silent acknowledgement".<sup class="nowrap"><a href="#CITEREFM">[M]</a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNourse1899" class="citation book cs1">Nourse, Henry Stedman (1899). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~malchist/mypage40.htm"><i>The Hoar Family in America</i></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Hoar+Family+in+America&rft.date=1899&rft.aulast=Nourse&rft.aufirst=Henry+Stedman&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Ffreepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com%2F~malchist%2Fmypage40.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AStatue+of+John+Harvard" class="Z3988"></span> (See family tree at end of transcription.) "Leonard Hoar, designated in his father's will to be the scholar of the family and a teacher in the church," became in 1672 the first Harvard president to have also been a Harvard graduate. "In <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Sewall" title="Samuel Sewall">Sewall's Diary</a>, June<span class="nowrap"> </span>15, 1674, is an account of the flogging of an undergraduate before the assembled students in the Library, President Hoar prefacing and closing the exercises with prayer. But this was not a very unusual discipline in those days and Dr. Hoar is not charged with undue severity."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-bunting-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-bunting_28-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBunting1998" class="citation book cs1">Bunting, Bainbridge (1998). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=nlaE3-XfmJwC"><i>Harvard: An Architectural History</i></a>. Harvard University Press. p. 290, n.14. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780674372917" title="Special:BookSources/9780674372917"><bdi>9780674372917</bdi></a>:</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Harvard%3A+An+Architectural+History&rft.pages=290%2C+n.14&rft.pub=Harvard+University+Press&rft.date=1998&rft.isbn=9780674372917&rft.aulast=Bunting&rft.aufirst=Bainbridge&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DnlaE3-XfmJwC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AStatue+of+John+Harvard" class="Z3988"></span> "The transfer of the statue from its original site on the Delta to a position on axis with Charles McKim's Johnston Gate was intended to give a sense of large-scale planning to the Yard and also to ameliorate the awkwardness of the central portion of Bulfinch's facade of University Hall."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-rubforluck-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-rubforluck_32-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-rubforluck_32-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Though noting that "students <i>do</i> rub bronze body parts [including noses and 'pedal extremeties'] at many schools and colleges", and that Dean of Students <a href="/wiki/Archie_Epps" title="Archie Epps">Archie Epps</a> confessed to having once "insinuated himself into a group of tourists admiring the statue and whispered, 'I wonder if you'd get good luck if you rubbed his foot<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>", <i><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Magazine" title="Harvard Magazine">Harvard Magazine</a></i> attributed persistence of the Harvard rub-for-luck faux tradition to the "mythmaking" of tour guides, who "assure their flocks that undergraduates have <i>traditionally</i> rubbed John Harvard's foot for luck (before exams or a <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mixer#English-socialevent" class="extiw" title="wikt:mixer">mixer</a>). They invite the tourists to do the same, and the tourists, being game and having paid their nickel, rub with gusto."<sup id="cite_ref-toes_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-toes-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <div class="paragraphbreak" style="margin-top:0.5em"></div> <p>In 2021 curators restored the toe's brown patina, but predicted that it would soon be rubbed off again.<sup id="cite_ref-refresh_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-refresh-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Based on the estimate of a professor of <a href="/wiki/Materials_science" title="Materials science">materials science</a> that "the shoe can endure 10 million rubs before it is utterly consumed", <i>Harvard Magazine</i> concluded that "the situation is grave": if 20,000 visitors per year each contribute "three brisk rubs (conservative estimates, surely), in 166 years John's toes will be history." <sup id="cite_ref-toes_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-toes-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </span></li> <li id="cite_note-seal-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-seal_35-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-seal_35-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">The modern design of the Harvard College seal features the syllables <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps"><span class="nowrap">ve • </span><span class="nowrap">ri • </span>tas</span> ("truth") superimposed on three books opened face up, with their pages to the viewer. The seal on the plinth, however, is an earlier design (the "Quincy seal", itself based on a long-forgotten 17th-century design rediscovered by president <a href="/wiki/Josiah_Quincy_III" title="Josiah Quincy III">Josiah Quincy</a> in the 1830s)<sup id="cite_ref-seals_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-seals-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in which the third book is opened face <i>down,</i> with the letters <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps">tas</span> over cover, spine, cover.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Greene-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Greene_37-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Greene_37-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Excerpted from <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGreene1934" class="citation news cs1"><a href="/wiki/Jerome_Davis_Greene" title="Jerome Davis Greene">Greene, Jerome Davis</a> (December 11, 1934). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1934/12/11/dont-quibble-sybll-ped-note-the-crimson/">"Don't Quibble Sybil — The Mail" (Letter to the editor)"</a>. <i>Harvard Crimson</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Harvard+Crimson&rft.atitle=Don%27t+Quibble+Sybil+%E2%80%94+The+Mail%22+%28Letter+to+the+editor%29&rft.date=1934-12-11&rft.aulast=Greene&rft.aufirst=Jerome+Davis&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecrimson.com%2Farticle%2F1934%2F12%2F11%2Fdont-quibble-sybll-ped-note-the-crimson%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AStatue+of+John+Harvard" class="Z3988"></span> ("Don't quibble, Sybil" is a line from Noël Coward's 1930 <i><a href="/wiki/Private_Lives" title="Private Lives">Private Lives</a></i>.) Greene's scold to "the sons of Harvard" opens, "The quibble over the question whether John Harvard was entitled to be called the Founder of Harvard College seems to me one of the least profitable. The destruction of myths is a legitimate sport, but its only justification is the establishment of truth in place of error." Greene was responding to a November 26 <i>Crimson</i> item iconoclastically headlined <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1934/11/26/memorial-society-honors-founder-of-college/">"Memorial Society Honors Founder of College In the Name and Image of Two Other Men<span class="nowrap"> </span>— College Founded By Grant of the Massachusetts General Court in the Year 1636"</a> : "When the members of the Memorial Society place a wreath on the statue of John Harvard today, expecting to honor the memory and the image of the founder of Harvard College, they will be honoring the likeness of another man and the name of a man who was not the legal founder of the college."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <sup class="nowrap"><a href="#CITEREFM">[M]</a></sup> Additionally, on either side of the base of the sculpture are <span style="font-size:85%;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps">THE HENRY-BONNARD BRONZE CO.<span class="nowrap"> </span> • <span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span> NEW YORK 1884</span></span> and <span style="font-size:85%;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><span class="smallcaps">DANIEL C. FRENCH<span class="nowrap"> </span> • <span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span> 1884</span></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-smithsonian_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-smithsonian-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Statue_of_John_Harvard&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-smithsonian-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-smithsonian_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-smithsonian_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!10495~!0#focus">"John Harvard (sculpture)"</a>. <i>Smithsonian American Art Museum – Inventory of American Sculpture</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Smithsonian+American+Art+Museum+%E2%80%93+Inventory+of+American+Sculpture&rft.atitle=John+Harvard+%28sculpture%29&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fsiris-artinventories.si.edu%2Fipac20%2Fipac.jsp%3F%26profile%3Dall%26source%3D~%21siartinventories%26uri%3Dfull%3D3100001~%2110495~%210%23focus&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AStatue+of+John+Harvard" class="Z3988"></span> Control number IAS 77000368 </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-HMagJanFeb2000-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-HMagJanFeb2000_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HMagJanFeb2000_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Conrad Edick Wright, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://harvardmagazine.com/2000/01/john-harvard.html">John Harvard: Brief life of a Puritan philanthropist</a> <i>Harvard Magazine</i>. 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(It's not a Bible.)</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Harvard+Gazette&rft.atitle=Biography+of+a+bronze&rft.date=2013-10-02&rft.aulast=Ireland&rft.aufirst=Corydon&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.harvard.edu%2Fgazette%2Fstory%2F2013%2F10%2Fbiography-of-a-bronze%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AStatue+of+John+Harvard" class="Z3988"></span> </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-MassHist-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-MassHist_12-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-MassHist_12-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-MassHist_12-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-MassHist_12-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Bx4XAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA347">"Communication by George E. Ellis on the proposed Statue of John Harvard."</a> <i>Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society,</i> vol. XX (1882–1883), pp 345–350.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-potter1-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-potter1_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Alfred C. Potter, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=yRsUAAAAIAAJ">"The College Library."</a> <i>Harvard Illustrated Magazine,</i> vol. IV no. 6, March 1903, pp.<span class="nowrap"> </span>105–112.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-potter2-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-potter2_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPotter1913" class="citation book cs1">Potter, Alfred Claghorn (1913). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160506035219/http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/dl/reading/001940602"><i>Catalogue of John Harvard's library</i></a>. Cambridge: J. Wilson. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/dl/reading/001940602">the original</a> on 2016-05-06<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2016-04-20</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Catalogue+of+John+Harvard%27s+library&rft.place=Cambridge&rft.pub=J.+Wilson&rft.date=1913&rft.aulast=Potter&rft.aufirst=Alfred+Claghorn&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Focp.hul.harvard.edu%2Fdl%2Freading%2F001940602&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AStatue+of+John+Harvard" class="Z3988"></span> </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Crimson1884-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Crimson1884_16-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Crimson1884_16-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1884/10/16/the-unveiling-of-the-harvard-statue/">"The Unveiling of the Harvard Statue"</a>, <i>Harvard Crimson,</i> October 16, 1884.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-HarvIllus1899-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-HarvIllus1899_17-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HarvIllus1899_17-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Freeman. 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Harvard University Press. 2004.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="A to Z has so many errors on the subject of the statue that it's best to avoid it completely (December 2012)">better source needed</span></a></i>]</sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-richman-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-richman_22-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richman, Michael. <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Og1QAAAAMAAJ">Daniel Chester French, an American sculptor</a></i> (1983), p.<span class="nowrap"> </span>58.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Crimson1984-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Crimson1984_23-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Crimson1984_23-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Crimson1984_23-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Crimson1984_23-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Crimson1984_23-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Crimson1984_23-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Crimson1984_23-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCallan1984" class="citation news cs1">Callan, Richard L. 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<li><i><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Lewis_Cass" title="Statue of Lewis Cass">Lewis Cass</a></i> (1889)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Death_and_the_Sculptor" title="Death and the Sculptor">Death and the Sculptor</a></i> (1889)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Thomas_Starr_King_(San_Francisco)" title="Statue of Thomas Starr King (San Francisco)">Thomas Starr King</a></i> (1892)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/John_Boyle_O%27Reilly_Memorial" title="John Boyle O'Reilly Memorial">John Boyle O'Reilly Memorial</a></i> (1896)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._A._Chapman_Memorial" title="T. A. Chapman Memorial">T. A. Chapman Memorial</a> (1896–1897)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Morris_Hunt_Memorial" title="Richard Morris Hunt Memorial">Richard Morris Hunt Memorial</a> (1898)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Rufus_Choate" title="Statue of Rufus Choate">Rufus Choate</a></i> (1898)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Equestrian_statue_of_Ulysses_S._Grant" title="Equestrian statue of Ulysses S. Grant">Ulysses S. Grant</a></i> (1899)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_George_H._Perkins" title="Statue of George H. Perkins">George H. 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Parkes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyman_Laboratory_of_Physics" title="Lyman Laboratory of Physics">Lyman Laboratory of Physics</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#A31F36;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #2C2A29, inset -2px -2px 0 #2C2A29;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Graduate_School_of_Arts_and_Sciences" class="mw-redirect" title="Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences"><span style="color:white">Graduate School</span></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Dean <a href="/wiki/Emma_Dench" title="Emma Dench">Emma Dench</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#A31F36;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #2C2A29, inset -2px -2px 0 #2C2A29;;width:1%">Libraries</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cabot_Science_Library" title="Cabot Science Library">Cabot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvard%E2%80%93Yenching_Library" title="Harvard–Yenching Library">Harvard-Yenching</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Houghton_Library" title="Houghton Library">Houghton</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Review" title="Harvard Review">Harvard Review</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lamont_Library" title="Lamont Library">Lamont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pusey_Library" title="Pusey Library">Pusey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Widener_Library" title="Widener Library">Widener</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Elkins_Widener" title="Harry Elkins Widener">Harry Elkins Widener</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Elkins_Widener" title="Eleanor Elkins Widener">Eleanor Elkins Widener</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grossman_Library" title="Grossman Library">Grossman</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#A31F36;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #2C2A29, inset -2px -2px 0 #2C2A29;;width:1%">Centers, institutes,<br />and societies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harvard_University_Asia_Center" title="Harvard University Asia Center">Asia Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hutchins_Center_for_African_and_African_American_Research" title="Hutchins Center for African and African American Research">Center for African and African American Research</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois_Research_Institute" title="W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute">Du Bois Institute</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvard%E2%80%93Smithsonian_Center_for_Astrophysics" title="Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics">Center for Astrophysics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairbank_Center_for_Chinese_Studies" title="Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies">Center for Chinese Studies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minda_de_Gunzburg_Center_for_European_Studies" title="Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies">Center for European Studies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carpenter_Center_for_the_Visual_Arts" title="Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts">Center for Visual Arts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Center_for_Hellenic_Studies" title="Center for Hellenic Studies">Center for Hellenic Studies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dumbarton_Oaks" title="Dumbarton Oaks">Dumbarton Oaks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Forest" title="Harvard Forest">Harvard Forest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Rowland_Institute_at_Harvard" title="The Rowland Institute at Harvard">Rowland Institute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Ukrainian_Research_Institute" title="Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute">Ukrainian Research Institute</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#A31F36;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #2C2A29, inset -2px -2px 0 #2C2A29;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Business_School" title="Harvard Business School"><span style="color:white">Business</span></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Dean <a href="/wiki/Srikant_Datar" title="Srikant Datar">Srikant Datar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baker_Library/Bloomberg_Center" title="Baker Library/Bloomberg Center">Baker Library/Bloomberg Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Business_Publishing" title="Harvard Business Publishing">Harvard Business Publishing</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Business_Review" title="Harvard Business Review">Harvard Business Review</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Business_School_RFC" title="Harvard Business School RFC">Harvard Business School RFC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spangler_Center" title="Spangler Center">Spangler Center</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#A31F36;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #2C2A29, inset -2px -2px 0 #2C2A29;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Graduate_School_of_Design" title="Harvard Graduate School of Design"><span style="color:white">Design</span></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Dean <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Whiting" title="Sarah Whiting">Sarah Whiting</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Design_Magazine" title="Harvard Design Magazine">Harvard Design Magazine</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joint_Center_for_Housing_Studies" title="Joint Center for Housing Studies">Center for Housing Studies</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#A31F36;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #2C2A29, inset -2px -2px 0 #2C2A29;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Divinity_School" title="Harvard Divinity School"><span style="color:white">Divinity</span></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Dean <a href="/wiki/David_N._Hempton" title="David N. Hempton">David N. Hempton</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#A31F36;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #2C2A29, inset -2px -2px 0 #2C2A29;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Graduate_School_of_Education" title="Harvard Graduate School of Education"><span style="color:white">Education</span></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Dean <a href="/wiki/Bridget_Terry_Long" title="Bridget Terry Long">Bridget Terry Long</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#A31F36;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #2C2A29, inset -2px -2px 0 #2C2A29;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Kennedy_School" title="Harvard Kennedy School"><span style="color:white">Government</span></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Dean Jeremy M. Weinstein</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ash_Center_for_Democratic_Governance_and_Innovation" title="Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation">Ash Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belfer_Center_for_Science_and_International_Affairs" title="Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs">Belfer Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carr_Center_for_Human_Rights_Policy" title="Carr Center for Human Rights Policy">Carr Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmond_%26_Lily_Safra_Center_for_Ethics" title="Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics">Center for Ethics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joint_Center_for_Housing_Studies" title="Joint Center for Housing Studies">Center for Housing Studies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hauser_Center_for_Nonprofit_Organizations" title="Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations">Center for Nonprofit Organizations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Center_for_Public_Leadership" title="Center for Public Leadership">Center for Public Leadership</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Institute_of_Politics" title="Harvard Institute of Politics">Institute of Politics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rappaport_Institute_for_Greater_Boston" title="Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston">Rappaport Institute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shorenstein_Center_on_Media,_Politics_and_Public_Policy" title="Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy">Shorenstein Center</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Journalist%27s_Resource" title="The Journalist's Resource">The Journalist's Resource</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#A31F36;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #2C2A29, inset -2px -2px 0 #2C2A29;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Law_School" title="Harvard Law School"><span style="color:white">Law</span></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Dean <a href="/wiki/John_F._Manning" title="John F. Manning">John F. Manning</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berkman_Klein_Center_for_Internet_%26_Society" title="Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society">Berkman Klein Center</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Civil_Rights%E2%80%93Civil_Liberties_Law_Review" title="Harvard Civil Rights–Civil Liberties Law Review">Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Harvard_International_Law_Journal" title="Harvard International Law Journal">International Law Journal</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Journal_of_Law_%26_Technology" title="Harvard Journal of Law & Technology">Journal of Law & Technology</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Journal_on_Legislation" title="Harvard Journal on Legislation">Journal on Legislation</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Law_Record" title="Harvard Law Record">Law Record</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Law_Review" title="Harvard Law Review">Law Review</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#A31F36;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #2C2A29, inset -2px -2px 0 #2C2A29;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Medical_School" title="Harvard Medical School"><span style="color:white">Medicine</span></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Dean <a href="/wiki/George_Q._Daley" title="George Q. Daley">George Q. Daley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Broad_Institute" title="Broad Institute">Broad Institute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boston_Medical_Library" title="Boston Medical Library">Medical Library</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Warren_Anatomical_Museum" title="Warren Anatomical Museum">Anatomical Museum</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvard%E2%80%93MIT_Program_in_Health_Sciences_and_Technology" title="Harvard–MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology">Program in Health Sciences</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvard_School_of_Dental_Medicine" title="Harvard School of Dental Medicine">School of Dental Medicine</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#A31F36;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #2C2A29, inset -2px -2px 0 #2C2A29;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Harvard_T.H._Chan_School_of_Public_Health" title="Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health"><span style="color:white">Public Health</span></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Dean <a href="/wiki/Michelle_Ann_Williams" title="Michelle Ann Williams">Michelle Ann Williams</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#A31F36;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #2C2A29, inset -2px -2px 0 #2C2A29;;width:1%">Museums and<br /> arboretum</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arnold_Arboretum" title="Arnold Arboretum">Arnold Arboretum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Art_Museums" title="Harvard Art Museums">Harvard Art Museums</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peabody_Museum_of_Archaeology_and_Ethnology" title="Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology">Archaeology and Ethnology Museum</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Busch%E2%80%93Reisinger_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Busch–Reisinger Museum">Busch–Reisinger Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fogg_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Fogg Museum">Fogg Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_M._Sackler_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Arthur M. Sackler Museum">Sackler Museum</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Collection_of_Historical_Scientific_Instruments" title="Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments">Collection of Scientific Instruments</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Glass_Flowers" title="Glass Flowers">Glass Flowers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Mineralogical_Museum" title="Harvard Mineralogical Museum">Mineralogical Museum</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_Artemas_Ward_House" title="General Artemas Ward House">General Artemas Ward House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Museum_of_Natural_History" title="Harvard Museum of Natural History">Natural History Museum</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Comparative_Zoology" title="Museum of Comparative Zoology">Comparative Zoology Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvard_University_Herbaria" title="Harvard University Herbaria">Herbaria</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Museum_of_the_Ancient_Near_East" title="Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East">Museum of the Ancient Near East</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#A31F36;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #2C2A29, inset -2px -2px 0 #2C2A29;;width:1%">Cambridge<br /> campus</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Boylston_Hall_(Harvard_University)" title="Boylston Hall (Harvard University)">Boylston Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Stow_Bradley_Jr._Memorial" title="Robert Stow Bradley Jr. Memorial">Bradley Memorial</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Discobolus_(Harvard_University)" title="Discobolus (Harvard University)">Discobolus</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gates_of_Harvard_Yard" title="Gates of Harvard Yard">Gates of Harvard Yard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Graduate_Center" title="Harvard Graduate Center">Graduate Center</a></li> <li><a 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Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smith_Campus_Center" title="Smith Campus Center">Smith Campus Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_Hall_(Harvard_University)" title="University Hall (Harvard University)">University Hall</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#A31F36;color:white;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #2C2A29, inset -2px -2px 0 #2C2A29;;width:1%">Centers and<br /> institutes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Innovation_Labs" title="Harvard Innovation Labs">Harvard Innovation Labs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Green_High_Performance_Computing_Center" title="Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center">Computing Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Radcliffe_Institute" title="Harvard Radcliffe Institute">Harvard Radcliffe Institute</a> <ul><li><a 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regalia of Harvard University">Academic regalia</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Graduate_Students_Union" title="Harvard Graduate Students Union">Graduate Students Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heraldry_of_Harvard_University" title="Heraldry of Harvard University">Heraldry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Tercentenary_celebration" title="Harvard Tercentenary celebration">Tercentenary celebration</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Magazine" title="Harvard Magazine">Harvard Magazine</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvard_University_Press" title="Harvard University Press">Harvard University Press</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lionel_de_Jersey_Harvard" title="Lionel de Jersey Harvard">Lionel de Jersey Harvard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Math_55" title="Math 55">Math 55</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Society_of_Fellows" title="Harvard Society of Fellows">Society of Fellows</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_University_Professors_at_Harvard_University" 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