The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-07

JOnu harVaru never even saw the place. Nor is there any recorded
 likeness of him in existence. The statue in the Harvard yard is merely symbolic, and the model used for ''the founder" was a Puritan locking student working his way through college.
 One library card-holder, whose
 book was long overdue, received worlds blessingl Of the 26o books
 donated by John Harvard, all but
 the one Ca book on preaching)
 brought in Hate" by the students were burned in the college fire. The
 surviving tome is now enshrined in
 leather under glass, and under
 heavy lock and key.
 John Harvard'S immortality was
 achieved at an outlay of those 260
 books, plus about $3,000 which he
 donated, and for which Gin 1639) his name was given to the school
 Games B. Duke paid over $10,000,- GOO to have his name attached to
 university)
 In 1901 an obscure Harvard
 freshman carved his three initials
 in his desk in Sever Hall, and 38
 years later returned to look at those
 initials, after making triumphant
 speech there during the 300th an-
 niversary celebration. The initials
 were F. D. R.
 There was law at Harvard dur
 ing the 17th century forbidding the
 speaking of English by students
 crossing the yard (they were to
 speak Latin, Greek or Hebrew) |.
 Yale men claim they still don't
 speak English there.
 By becoming scholars" ring of
 book thieves succeeded in perpetra-
 ting one of the greatest thefts of
 GUT time at Harvard. They studied
 the university's beginnings Git was
 begun as a school for miniSters) and made a survey of the kind of
 student who would arouse least sus- picion. Then one of them began
 visiting the Widener Library's Shakespeare collection every day
 dressed as minister. He walked of one day with genuine First
 Folio Shakespeare!
 The writer most widely read at
 Harvard (by personal Surveyl is not
 Shakespeare, Marx, Darwin, Tolstoi,
 beck-but Winchell!
 At the dedication ceremonies for
 Harvards celebrated Observatory
 buildings in 1882, President Lowell was handed the key to the insti-
 tuition with great pomp and heart
 felt speech of gratitude by Francis
 Bullfinch, architect of the building {. President Lowell looked down at the
 key and winced, perceptibly. On it Tas stamped Vale"
 A Nieman Fellow who shall be nameless said. upon first entering the Adams House gallery of por- traits (every important Adams is portrayed since the Revolution : s'What this house needs is good portrait of Eve"
 Prof. Ashley Montagu, irked one
 day by students who claimed Rad 5 cliffe girls had as much. right as Harvard men to attend graduate school classes, said he saw little diff ference between men and women students. T have found only this \ difference" he said. When I enter a Harvard classroom and say good morning to the men, they say noth- ing. When I enter Radcliffe classroom and say good morning the girls also say nothing-but they < put it down in their notes!'' Harvard's football teams under coach Percy Haughton always stressed brain over brawn, but one Saturday afternoon Percy Crest his long bones) was almost outwitteo by a bunch of Indians! Looking up from the Harvard bench. he saw the Haskell Indian team trot out at game time with a half football sewed into each mans jersey to- , ward the right side. When they charged, it loked as though eleven men were carrying footballs. There 4 was nothing in the rules against it
 Haughton knew he was sunk, but thought fast. He asked the referee for the ball, then sent a water boy over to the tennis courts and had the ball whitewashed. The strategy
 saved the game.
 Prof. Copeland, Harvard's famed English scholar, though getting or
 in years took new offices on the top floor of Hollis Hall even if il meant climbing four flights. When 4fiends asked Copey why he dio tAAt, he explained he could not 0band the sound of feet stomp.ne above him and up there only Gods
 above me, and though He's busy He manages to be quiet about lt!' (Ralph Foss, Harvard's brilliant story teller, now with McGraw- Hill, heard it himself0
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