Richard I of England
(Coeur de Lion)
In his honor, a small correction will be made this morning to the Wikipedia article on Harvard University. The date of the founding of Harvard will be changed from today, September 8, to the apparently more correct date October 28 (1636).
“… the Massachusetts
Great and General Court…
on Oct. 28, 1636, set aside
400 pounds for that
‘schoale or colledge….'”
— TIME, Sept. 28, 1936
“Only through time
time is conquered.”
— T. S. Eliot
Update of 7:14 PM Sept. 8:
Democracy has prevailed, and my correction has now been made politically correct.
Here is my comment at Wikipedia:
I see that Daniel P. B. Smith has changed the article in accordance with his earlier suggestion. This is at least an improvement. Enemies of Harvard’s political correctness may be amused by the fact that in the summary box, the college motto Veritas (Truth) is followed immediately by a Harvard lie.