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Statue of John Harvard

John Harvard
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.
"He gazes for a moment into the future, so dim, so uncertain, yet so full of promise, promise which has been more than realized." [note 1]
Artist
Year1884 (1884)
TypeBronze
Dimensions
  • Figure: 71 by 38.6 by 65 in
    (180 by 98 by 165 cm)
  • Plinth: 61 by 72 by 12 in
    (155 by 183 by 30 cm)[1]
LocationHarvard Yard, Cambridge, Massachusetts

John Harvard is a sculpture in bronze by Daniel Chester French in Harvard Yard, Cambridge, Massachu­setts, honoring clergyman John Harvard (1607–1638), whose deathbed[2] bequest to the "schoale or Colledge" recently undertaken by the Massachu­setts Bay Colony was so gratefully received that it was consequently ordered "that the Colledge agreed upon formerly to bee built at Cambridg shalbee called Harvard Colledge." [3] There being nothing to indicate what John Harvard had looked like, French used a Harvard student collaterally descended from an early Harvard president as inspiration.

The statue's inscription‍—‌JOHN HARVARD  •   FOUNDER  • 1638‍—‌is the subject of an arch polemic[4] traditionally recited for visitors, questioning whether John Harvard justly merits the honorific founder. 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 the founder, but rather a founder, of the school, though the timeliness and generosity of his contribution have made him the most honored of these.

Tourists often rub the toe of John Harvard's left shoe for luck.


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