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Harvard Historical Walking Tour

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Harvard Historical Walking Tour
Harvard Historical Walking Tour
Harvard Historical Walking Tour
Harvard Historical Walking Tour
Harvard Historical Walking Tour
Harvard Historical Walking Tour
Harvard Historical Walking Tour
Harvard Historical Walking Tour
Harvard Historical Walking Tour
Harvard Historical Walking Tour
Harvard Historical Walking Tour
Harvard Historical Walking Tour
Harvard Historical Walking Tour
Harvard Historical Walking Tour
Harvard Historical Walking Tour
Harvard Historical Walking Tour
Harvard Historical Walking Tour
Harvard Historical Walking Tour
Harvard Historical Walking Tour
Harvard Historical Walking Tour
Harvard Historical Walking Tour
Harvard Historical Walking Tour
Harvard Historical Walking Tour
Harvard Historical Walking Tour
Harvard Historical Walking Tour
Phone:
+1 617-520-4030

Hours:
Sunday10am - 4pm
Monday10am - 4pm
Tuesday10am - 4pm
Wednesday10am - 4pm
Thursday10am - 4pm
Friday10am - 4pm
Saturday10am - 4pm


John Harvard is a sculpture in bronze by Daniel Chester French in Harvard Yard, Cambridge, Massachu­setts honoring John Harvard , whose deathbed 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. 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, 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; 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, in the mistaken belief that doing so is a Harvard student tradition.
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