Statue of John Harvard (English Wikipedia)
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- Nourse, Henry Stedman (1899). The Hoar Family in America. (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 Sewall's Diary, June 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."
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- Bacon, Edwin M. (1886). Bacon's Dictionary of Boston. Houghton, Mifflin. p. 185.
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- Bunting, Bainbridge (1998). Harvard: An Architectural History. Harvard University Press. p. 290, n.14. ISBN 9780674372917: "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."
- Shand-Tucci, Douglas (2001). The Campus Guide: Harvard University. Princeton Architectural Press. pp. 46–51. ISBN 9781568982809.
- "Sitting Statues. John Harvard". American Architect and Architecture. Vol. XIX, no. 546. J. R. Osgood & Company. June 12, 1886. pp. 279–81.
- The National Cyclopedia of American Biography. Vol. VIII. J. T. White. 1898. p. 285.
- Badger, Henry C. (July–August 1887). "Notes from Harvard College: Its physical basis and intellectual life". In Lamb, Martha J. (ed.). The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries. Vol. 18. A. S. Barnes. pp. 517–22.
- Talmage, T. De Witt, ed. (April 1885). "Statue of John Harvard". Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine. Vol. 17, no. 4. Frank Leslie's Publishing House. p. 353.
- "Communication by George E. Ellis on the proposed Statue of John Harvard." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. XX (1882–1883), pp 345–350.
- Alfred C. Potter, "The College Library." Harvard Illustrated Magazine, vol. IV no. 6, March 1903, pp. 105–112.
- Freeman. D. Bosworth, Jr., "The Statue of John Harvard", The Harvard Illustrated Magazine, vol. I, no. 2 (Nov. 1899), pp. 28–31.
- Bethell, John T., Hunt, Richard M., Shenton, Robert. Harvard A to Z. Harvard University Press. 2004.[better source needed]
- Richman, Michael. Daniel Chester French, an American sculptor (1983), p. 58.
- Untitled. Vol. 36. 1934. p. 730.
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- Ireland, Corydon (October 2, 2013). "Biography of a bronze". Harvard Gazette.
Then there are the hard-to-see books scattered under the statue's chair, companions to the single volume on his lap. (It's not a Bible.)
- Colleen Walsh, "John Harvard gets a facelift". Harvard Gazette. September 1, 2021.
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- Potter, Alfred Claghorn (1913). Catalogue of John Harvard's library. Cambridge: J. Wilson. Archived from the original on 2016-05-06. Retrieved 2016-04-20.
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- Harvard University. President's Office. Records of the President of Harvard University, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 1909-1933. UAI.5.160, Box 202, Folder #566. Harvard University Archives.
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- Harvard University. Corporation. Seals, 1650–[1926]: an inventory. UAI 15.1310, Harvard University Archives.
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- Conrad Edick Wright, John Harvard: Brief life of a Puritan philanthropist Harvard Magazine. January–February, 2000.
- The College Pump: Toes Imperiled. Harvard Magazine May–June 1999.
- Bethell, John T. (July–August 1997). "David McCord: Fishing with barbless hook". Harvard Magazine. The quotation is the entirety of McCord's poem "Man from Emmanuel", originally published in the Harvard Lampoon (1936).
- Rose, Cynthia (May 1999). "Reading the Regalia: A guide to deciphering the academic dress code". Harvard Magazine.
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- "Color – Identity Guidelines – Harvard Business School". Harvard Business School. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
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- "Painted Harvard Red". The Philadelphia Record. June 2, 1890. p. 1.
- "Yale's Pet Back, But Photographs Show Treachery". Berkeley Daily Gazette. March 26, 1934.
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- "The John Harvard Statue" (PDF). The New York Times. October 18, 1884.
In quoting this passage the word book has been substituted for Bible per the unanimity of other sources,[M][6]: 279 [7][8]: 522 [9][10]
all of which refer to the volume held by the figure as a book or tome, 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 Puritan of their stamp,—that is to say, not a Separatist. Pictures represent the Puritan minister of that day as wearing a somewhat closely fitting cloak, covering perhaps a cassock, 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." [11]
That John Harvard is wearing a skullcap is frequently overlooked. "Edward T. Wilcox, A.M. '49 ... 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 ... if I told you John Harvard is actually wearing a cap?'" [5]
Other subtle details are a slight mustache, tassels at the collar, and "roselike decorations" on the shoes.[10]
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- "John Harvard (sculpture)". Smithsonian American Art Museum – Inventory of American Sculpture. Control number IAS 77000368
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- Excerpted from Greene, Jerome Davis (December 11, 1934). "Don't Quibble Sybil — The Mail" (Letter to the editor)". Harvard Crimson. ("Don't quibble, Sybil" is a line from Noël Coward's 1930 Private Lives.) 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 Crimson item iconoclastically headlined "Memorial Society Honors Founder of College In the Name and Image of Two Other Men — College Founded By Grant of the Massachusetts General Court in the Year 1636" : "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."
- "The Unveiling of the Harvard Statue", Harvard Crimson, October 16, 1884.
- Callan, Richard L. (April 28, 1984). "100 Years of Solitude: John Harvard Finishes His First Century". Harvard Crimson.
- John Harvard to Move from Memorial Region: Will Take Up Position Before University Hall Some Time in May Harvard Crimson. March 22, 1924.
- "John Harvard's Fiftieth Anniversary Approaches — Statue First Erected in Front of Memorial Hall in 1884". Harvard Crimson, March 13, 1934.
- "Fact and Rumor". Harvard Crimson. November 15, 1884.
- "Untitled". Harvard Crimson. February 26, 1886.
- "Bingham Denies Mermen Kidnaped Handsome Dan – Advises Farmer Athletes Are Not Connected With Affair". The Harvard Crimson. March 21, 1934.
- "Handsome Dan II To Appear In Newsreel at University – Apted Figures in Filming of Stolen Yale Mascot". The Harvard Crimson. March 28, 1934.
- "First Eli Bulldog Barked at Opponents In 1890; Second Licked Harvard's Feet". The Harvard Crimson. November 25, 1950.
- Ury, Faryl (October 2, 2002). "John Harvard Statue Vandalized". The Harvard Crimson.
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- The Charter of the President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Potter, Alfred Claghorn (1913). Catalogue of John Harvard's library. Cambridge: J. Wilson. Archived from the original on 2016-05-06. Retrieved 2016-04-20.
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- Per Memorial of John Harvard,[M] Ellis spoke of illness threatening Harvard's "immature" life, but the Crimson reporter understood Ellis to be speaking of Harvard's "miniature" life.[14]
"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 consumption, which gave a clue to his physique." (French's daughter wrote[4] of the figure's "beautiful, wasted hand ... the hands were thin and nervous"; Shand-Tucci[4] 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 Oxford, who was temporarily embarrassed financially and took this means of earning his bread." [15]
- Though noting that "students do rub bronze body parts [including noses and 'pedal extremeties'] at many schools and colleges", and that Dean of Students Archie Epps 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'",
Harvard Magazine attributed persistence of the Harvard rub-for-luck faux tradition to the "mythmaking" of tour guides, who "assure their flocks that undergraduates have traditionally rubbed John Harvard's foot for luck (before exams or a mixer). They invite the tourists to do the same, and the tourists, being game and having paid their nickel, rub with gusto."[5]
In 2021 curators restored the toe's brown patina, but predicted that it would soon be rubbed off again.[25] Based on the estimate of a professor of materials science that "the shoe can endure 10 million rubs before it is utterly consumed", Harvard Magazine 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." [5]
