On Harvard's Memorial Church in 2007—
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"John Harvard left no male heir to carry on the Harvard family name. Instead, the naming of the College in his honor was the undying legacy that his friends decided to grant to him. In so doing, they were saying to every succeeding generation that this was the kind of man whom they wanted others to emulate, whose spirit of courage, self-sacrifice and generosity embodied the very best of what they hoped Harvard College should become. On November 4, 2007, the gift of a tablet was presented to Harvard Memorial Church by the dean of Southwark Cathedral, London, the Rev. Colin Slee, and Emmanuel College, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of John Harvard's baptism. This, along with a combined brief exhibit called 'Heralds of Light,' which consisted in part of showing John Harvard's baptismal page from the Southwark records and his Emmanuel College signature— brought over for the occasion from England by Southwark and Emmanuel representatives—was about all the attention that Harvard University could muster to remember the 400th birthday of its namesake." — Arseny James Melnick (A.M., Harvard University, 1977), |
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founder of Harvard University in 1638. It's also called
the Statue of Three Lies. What are the three lies?"
Also on November 4, 2007—
