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The John Harvard statue is nicknamed the “statue of three lies.”. We reveal the truth behind the landmark. The John Harvard statue is a mainstay of Harvard Yard. Every day, students rub his toe on their way to class, hoping that it will give them luck on their next hard exam.
John Harvard is an 1884 sculpture in bronze by Daniel Chester French at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The Real 3 Lies of Harvard. By Tina Chen, Alexandra A. Kassinis, and Hana Rehman• . If you’ve ever been on a Harvard tour, you’ve probably heard the tour guide refer to the John Harvard statue as...
The guide explained why campus residents refer to the landmark as “the statue of three lies.” The first, she said, is that it depicts John Harvard. All portraits of the real man burned in a fire in 1764, so the model for the statue was Sherman Hoar, Class of 1882, a relative of Leonard Hoar, the University’s fourth president.
In Tangible Things—Laurel’s HarvardX course which produced the wonderful Tangible Things book—she explains (and complicates) why the John Harvard statue is called the “Statue of Three Lies.”
John Harvard Statue. Cambridge, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, North America. The centerpiece of Harvard Yard is this sculpture by Daniel Chester French, known as the `statue of three lies'. John Harvard was the university's first benefactor, who donated his library in 1638, but he was not the founder of the university, nor was it founded in 1638 ...
Anyone passing through the heart of Harvard University during a guided tour has probably overheard the familiar phrase declaring the larger-than-life tribute as the “statue of three lies.” Created by famed Lincoln Memorial sculptor Daniel Chester French and unveiled in 1884, the statue does not, as far as anyone knows, resemble the real ...