Dean of Students Archie Epps confessed to having once "insinuated himself into a group of tourists admiring the statue and whispered, 'I wonder if you'd get good luck if you rubbed his foot'", Harvard Magazine attributed persistence of the Harvard rub-for-luck faux tradition to the "mythmaking" of tour guides, who "assure their flocks that undergraduates have traditionally rubbed John Harvard's foot for luck (before exams or a mixer). They invite the tourists to do the same, and the tourists, being game and having paid their nickel, rub with gusto."
***Sinh viên và du khách chùi giày cho Tượng Ông John Harvard người sáng lập Đại Học nầy để hy vọng được may mắn- Giày bên trái của tượng sáng bóng vì mỗi ngày đều có nhiều người đến chùi./-tcl
John Harvard
"He gazes for a moment into the future, so dim, so uncertain, yet so full of promise, promise which has been more than realized." [a]
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| Year | 1884 |