John Harvard statue
15th December 2008
Joy Miranda took her own share of experience in touching the foot / shoe of John Harvard’s statue situated at Harvard Yard, inside the Harvard University campus, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. It was thought that visitors touch or rub the foot for good luck.
JOHN HARVARD STATUE
In 1884 Samuel J. Bridge presented the University with a bronze statue of John Harvard as conceived by Daniel Chester French. At the unveiling, President Eliot recalled Harvard’s bequest, saying, “He will teach that one disinterested deed of hope and faith may crown a brief and broken life with deathless fame.” The statue is nicknamed “The Statue of Three Lies.”