Harvard’s official mascot, John Harvard, is named after a Puritan priest who arrived in the United States in 1637 and gave an endowment to the university. The school’s color is the Harvard Crimson, and as of 2014, the mascot is John Harvard, the first donor. John Harvard was the first benefactor of the university and had red hair but no beard.
The Harvard Crimson is the nickname for the intercollegiate athletic teams of Harvard College, which compete in NCAA Division I. As of 2013, there were 42 Division I intercollegiate varsity sports teams. Harvard has many successful and famous alumni, known for teaching Science, Business, and Politics.
John Harvard was a New England colonist whose bequest allowed the establishment of the university. The mascot for Harvard University is John Harvard, who has red hair but no beard. The turkey mascot symbolizes the values of Harvard students, such as social, intelligent, curious, inquisitive, and loyal.
A tradition at Harvard commencement ceremonies involves a human dressed as John Harvard leading the procession, honoring the school’s history and the Puritan priest who arrived in the United States in 1637 and died the following year. The mascot is a tangible object of affection for all students, embodying the grandeur of Harvard and calling attention to its achievements.
📹 Harvard Crimson? How colleges chose their mascots
The true story of how Harvard chose their nickname and mascot. As imagined by me, Josh Mancuso. ————————– Thank …
What does the Harvard symbol stand for?
President Josiah Quincy made the initial discovery of the inaugural draft of the College arms, which took the form of a shield bearing the Latin motto “VERITAS” (“Verity” or “Truth”), during Harvard’s Bicentennial celebration on September 8, 1836.
Why is Harvard’s color crimson?
Harvard Crimson, a deep, rich shade of red, originated in 1858 when rowers from Harvard chose crimson scarves to distinguish their team. Today, this color is synonymous with Harvard’s legacy and excellence, and is often used in designs that convey authority, heritage, and sophistication. Its boldness and depth are often seen in luxurious fabrics and classic sports cars. Harvard Crimson’s meaning is associated with warmth, intensity, and sophistication.
Why is Harvard mascot a pilgrim?
Harvard University, an independent, coeducational Ivy League institution, is known for its mascot, John Harvard, and its crimson school color. The university offers 80 concentration programs leading to bachelor of arts or bachelor of science degrees. Located in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, it has an enrollment of over 20, 000 degree candidates, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional students.
Additionally, the university has 30, 000 other students who take credit courses, non-credit courses, and seminars. Harvard students are often referred to as the subset of roughly 6, 400 students who attend Harvard College.
What is Harvard’s current mascot?
Harvard University, founded in 1636, is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the oldest research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Named after its first benefactor, Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is known for its influence, wealth, and rankings, making it one of the most prestigious universities globally. Other notable institutions include AAU, COFHE, NAICU, UArctic, URA, Space-grant, NCAA Division I FCS, ECAC Hockey, NEISA, CWPA, IRA, EAWRC, EARC, EISA.
What does the Harvard logo stand for?
Harvard graduate schools have unique shields featuring the College’s original arms, with the Latin motto “VERITAS” on three books. Adobe Garamond, a typeface designed by Robert Slimbach in 1989, has been used for four centuries due to its elegance, warmth, readability, and legibility. Roboto, a dual nature font, has a mechanical skeleton with geometric forms and friendly curves, allowing letters to settle into their natural width for a more natural reading rhythm. Crimson Text, a web-based typeface inspired by Garamond, delivers clarity and pixel perfection on any digital screen, redefining the tradition of beautiful old-style typefaces.
Why is turkey the Thanksgiving mascot?
Turkeys are often synonymous with Thanksgiving due to their association with the first Thanksgiving meal. The origins of turkey domestication can be traced back to Native Americans in the United States and Mexico, who domesticated turkeys twice in North America. The first domestication occurred by the Anasazi in the southwest United States and the Aztecs, who found turkeys and brought them back to Spain. The turkey also spread throughout Europe when people arrived in the 1600s in the Northeast.
A meal shared between Pilgrim settlers at Plymouth colony and local Wampanoag Native Americans in late 1621 is documented by Edward Winslow as providing wild “fowl”, which could have been turkeys, native to Massachusetts. Historians believe it was likely ducks or geese. William Bradford, a fellow colonist, mentioned a “great store of wild Turkies” at Plymouth that fall. This connection between turkeys and the national holiday was cemented into American culture when Winslow’s letter and Bradford’s comments were reprinted in an 1856 collection of Plymouth writing.
The ambiguity of the first meal at Plymouth is further complicated by the similarities between turkeys and other gallinaceous birds. Chickens and turkeys are closely related, belonging to the same family. Gallinaceous birds, such as chickens, turkeys, pheasants, quail, peacocks, and guineas, are unique birds with colorful feathers, big displays, and unusual sounds. The gobble of a turkey is a common sight in these birds.
Why is the bird called a turkey?
Domestic turkeys are native to the Wild Turkey, a species native to the Americas. In the 1500s, Spanish traders brought domesticated turkeys to Europe and Asia, claiming they reached European tables through shipping routes that passed through Turkey. The turkey’s meaty, succulent taste was a sensation in Europe, where fine dining still included storks, herons, and bustards. English settlers in America were amazed by the wild turkeys’ natural diet of chestnuts, beechnuts, walnuts, and other native masts.
This led to the turkey being chosen as the national emblem by Ben Franklin. The Wild Turkey is one of only two species of turkey in the world, the other being the Ocellated Turkey, native to Mexico and Central America. The Ocellated Turkey has iridescent plumage, a featherless powder-blue head, and a unique cap-like crown.
What was Harvard before the Crimson?
In 1873, the Harvard Crimson, the preeminent student newspaper, underwent a renaming to become the Magenta.
Is Harvard’s mascot a turkey?
The Harvard University has adopted a turkey mascot to represent the university’s values and commitment to conservation. The turkey mascot, which was once threatened by extinction, has been revitalized by organizations like the National Wild Turkey Federation. The mascot represents the social, intelligent, curious, inquisitive, and loyal nature of Harvard students. The Harvard Undergraduate Association has released a list of potential names for the turkey mascot, which the student body can vote on.
The debates spark more school spirit than the color red has ever done. Although the mascot may not reach the iconicness of Dartmouth’s Keggy the Keg or Yale’s Dan the Bulldog, it is a step in the right direction and a step towards a more iconic mascot for Harvard students.
What does the Harvard logo mean?
President Josiah Quincy made the initial discovery of the inaugural draft of the College arms, which took the form of a shield bearing the Latin motto “VERITAS” (“Verity” or “Truth”), during Harvard’s Bicentennial celebration on September 8, 1836.
Why does Stanford not have a mascot?
Stanford’s sports teams were known as the Indians from 1930 to 1972, with Prince Lightfoot as the official mascot from 1951 to 1972. In 1972, Native American students and staff lobbied University President Richard Lyman to abolish the “Indian” name and mascot, leading to the team unofficially reverting to using the color “Cardinal”. From 1972 until 1981, there was debate among students and administrators about the mascot and team name. A 1972 student referendum supported restoring the Indian name, while a 1975 referendum was against.
The Robber Barons won, but the university’s administration refused to implement the vote. In 1978, 225 varsity athletes started a petition for the mascot to be the griffin, but it failed. In 1981, Donald Kennedy declared that all Stanford athletic teams would be represented exclusively by the color cardinal. In 1975, the band humorously suggested several new mascot candidates, including the Steaming Manhole, the French Fry, and the Tree. The Tree received positive attention and was made a permanent fixture, gaining embraced by the Stanford community.
📹 500 Facts – mental_floss List Show Ep. 524
A list of 500 fun facts, from a weekly show where knowledge junkies get their fix of trivia-tastic information. This week, John tells …
Dogs can distinguish blues from yellows, but cannot tell red from green. Most mammals are red-green color blind, but those who cannot see other colors are very rare. It is believed that the earliest mammals were nocturnal burrowing rodent-like creatures who had little use of color vision and developed a defect causing them to loose the red/green sensing eye pigments that almost all other vertebrates had since before fish became amphibians. Primates later evolved a different red-green receptor, which does not work quite as well as the one shared by birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish.
26:11 (fact number 284) And how! When Scottsdale Community College was being established, they decided to spend more money on the lighting of the athletic fields than the construction of the entire library. But they had not yet decided on the colors or mascot, leaving them up to a student vote. The students chose pink and white and the Fighting Artichoke in protest. And this in the 1970s! The mascot has remained, but the colors were changed to green and gold. The students were clearly Nerdfighters before you coined the term, John.
31:09 that accident helped scientists map ocean currents accurately for the first time 34:11 Stuff You Missed in History Class has an episode in their podcast archives about The Great Molasses Flood. The really tragic thing about the accident was that it happened in Boston’s North End neighborhood, which is Boston’s Little Italy, and a lot of Italian immigrants were impacted.
The tradition that the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was an apple comes from a visual pun commonly found in religious art in the Latin speaking western Roman Catholic Church. In Latin, the word for ‘apple’ and the word for ‘evil’ are both spelled “malum,” although one word has a long ‘a’ and the other a short ‘a’. In the Greek speaking Eastern Orthodox Church, this pun made no sense so the fruit was usually shown as a fig or pomegranate.
Bonus fact for the piggy bank. My 9th great grandfather was one of the first 23 founders of Norwich CT. He was fined in 1658, because a fence on his property failed, and his pigs ruined part of his neighbor’s crops. That fence was eventually destroyed, and where it stood is now the Founder’s Cemetery.
OK as a former resident of Key West and Hemingway fan who knows the story I must say he did not steal the urinal. When the bar remodeled he commented that “I’ve pissed enough of my life away here I ought to have something to show for it.” The bar GAVE it to him, excellent customer and all and to this day it’s in the backyard of his house on Key West ( featured in scenes from the James Bond movie “License to Kill”), artistically tiled into a fountain… so no, he didn’t steal it!
My ex-husband used to annoy the hell out of me, when he would start humming the Grange Hil themed tune which for any Americans reading this, was probably THE BEST AND most popular children’s programme in the late 70’s oh my God, The Thrill of rushing home to catch the next episode after school! thank the Gods for satellite/video recordersLOL!
Blowing into an Nes cartridge will temporarily fix it but yes it does do more damage. It works bc the moisture from your breath allows the brass pads to make an electronic connection to the pins, but it’s temporary. The moisture corrodes the pins more over time making it harder and harder to make a proper connection. Use isopropyl alcohol on a Q(uality) tip instead. See what I did there?
Great story about the Fighting Artichokes. Scottsdale Community College students were mad when the athletic facilities were built while classes were still being held in trailers. To placate the students, the chancellor allowed the students to pick the colors and the team mascot. This is why the colors are puce and green, and the students get to yell “”Choke” “‘Choke” during home games.
The “pencil” Picasso story🤔. That seriously sounds anecdotal. And I’d so watch tug of war in the summer Olympics! And the cigarette/gas thing? True. My dad worked at/owned a gas station/mechanics shop all his life. And EVERYBODY smoked then. You can smoke by a pump. However, you need to be EXTREMELY careful with a match after you light it, never ever by the pumps. Gas needs an open flame, or a spark. This was pretty dang impressive, dude.
I miss Keggy the Keg. Did you know Dartmouth’s marching band includes a keg in its percussion section? There’s a lot of Dartmouth connections in this list: Dr. Suess, Robert L. May, inventor of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Franklin Pierce, Fred Rogers attended Dartmouth but left for Divinity school. He gave the 2002 Commencement Address shortly before he died, The Lego Movie was written and directed by Chris Miller and Phil Lord, Dartmouth class of 1997, the aforementioned Keggy the Keg…
The poor recovery rate of ‘fine’ Art is because most successful Art Heists are (Contract Jobs) for Collectors who will hide the chosen Art well away from ‘prying’ eyes/hands/police. <*> In the olden days, sheep were kept for lawns as they can eat grass very close to the dirt, which is why Ranchers hated Sheepherders as the sheep left nothing for the bovines.
(At 40:19) Don’t you hate it when you get a song, or an unpleasant thought or memory in your head and can’t get rid of it? A few years ago, I finally discovered a completely effective way to stop being haunted by unpleasant or undesirable thoughts, songs, etc. from repeatedly playing in my head! Whenever I have an unpleasant thought, memory, song, unreasonable fear, etc. continually popping up in my head, I select a very pleasant thought or memory that’s related in some way (even slightly) and pair them together repeatedly in my mind (by thinking the unpleasant thought, followed immediately by the pleasant one!) about ten times in a row, separated by an unrelated thought about something happening now, or imminently (to act like a “palate-cleanser” making each “pairing exercise” a separate event). This strengthens the exercise’s effectiveness. For example, if I have a bad memory involving being hurt by someone, I then mentally search for a thought or memory of enjoying something with someone. Then I focus on the unpleasant thought and follow it immediately with the pleasant thought. It also helps if the pleasant thought interacts with the unpleasant thought in a way that minimizes it, renders it impotent, destroys it, etc. (like engulfing it, squashing it, breaking it in pieces, tossing it out the window, etc.). After the unpleasant thought has been effectively paired, then every time the unpleasant thought rears its ugly head, the PLEASANT thought AUTOMATICALLY OVERCOMES it! At first it may take more than ten times to effectively pair them, but if you have some really unpleasant thoughts like I’ve had, it’s very, very, very worth the time it takes to pair them!
So I don’t have a Bob Ross painting but I can pull some strings as a sibling of a talented artist (my sister) who’s a fan of your books and would most likely love to do a commission for you John, would also likely be more than keen to do artwork for your books, she’s been commissioned to do art works for The Vatican although the details escape me at this time. I found out she’s read nearly all your books when she saw me perusal this and went “Wait what?! That’s John Green!”. Also, we’re closer inline for the English throne than King Phillippe sitting somewhere around the 700th place.
Just to add on, Disney has had a lot of deaths occur on their grounds, specifically WDW in this case, but very few are actually called and marked on WDW’s grounds, since Disney holds a tight grip over it being the “Happiest Place on Earth… or else.” Most of the cases that have actually been called on the grounds were due to either extreme circumstances, such as the Debbie Stone case (that case was horrible, but to keep it brief, she was a teenage Cast Member tasked with saying goodbye to people getting off a limited edition version of the Carousel of Progress, which was at this time decorated for a Wild West theme instead of it’s normal setup, and at one point the ride started rotating, and the passengers heard screaming but thought it was part of the show due to the limited theme, and then were confused that Debbie wasn’t there to give a joyful goodbye. Her body was found crushed between the stationary wall and the rotating wall of the ride, since there was no way to tell if you were getting too close to the doorway cutout at that time, so she got too close and got sucked in through the door cutout. If you go to the Carousel of Progress now, the red industrial light on the back wall of the rotating theater is there because of that case) or if the body can’t be recovered and moved, like the child that got taken by the alligator a few years back. Disney has a deal with a nearby city area, Celebration, Florida, that their hospital will take any bodies and call them there so they don’t get pronounced dead on the Happiest Place on Earth, but this of course is impossible to finagle if you don’t have a body to move or if you clearly have a dead body and not someone you can move.
Many cool factoids. HOWEVER I AM 100% SURE!!! that you are incorrect about the NES games thing. In fact…in my experience(anecdotal I know) the only way to get the games to play on older systems or systems with some age was to blow in them…but not just any breath would do. It needed to be a quick blast of breast like whistling minus the sound and minus any saliva. Then they would boot normally and run fine…never killed a game. It was however a game changer when I got my first cartridge cleaner…every game played like new…and the sound quality improved….lol. You know, I still have an NES around here somewhere…and an atari…now I wanna play them…lol.
It was all going well until 34;50 when I clearly heard you say that “the direction of water going down the drain is the same in both hemispheres! BULLSHIT haha i got you on this one Donut oops i mean mental floss for i have witnessed with my own eyes that exact phenomenon in action in Africa and if you can be bothered perusal “Long way down” by charlie Boorman you to can see this effect for your own viewing pleasure.
I think only one person owns some of the paintings Bob Ross did in his show. They said he painted them in triplicate. Two for production & one for the woman who gave him his tv career. Dude painted like 300+ paintings for his show which means he ACTUALLY painted over 1000. Most are still at his company. If someone owns a Bob Ross painting it was most likely done before his tv career.
Talk about swallowing spiders reminds me, has nothing to do with a spider, but I was sleeping on a floor mat, felt something run across my chest, hit myself so fast it hurt but whatever it was was in my hand, I held it in my hand and turned on the light it was a mouse smashed the guts out of it, it musta been instant death, and for me, 3 or 4 hand washes followed by a ton of hand sanitizer
I swear, this youtube website has some stunning coincidental timing I was perusal another article of theirs about animals, and they mentioned the Ikea Monkey, which I only learned existed after a joke was made about it in Bojack Horseman And now, I find out that this glorious man wrote the book Turtles all the way down, after doing research about what it is since I keep seeing it in my library and because my love of turtles cannot be contained
In my experience the cows listening to music fact is incorrect. I have worked with cows for many years and have noticed the type of music matters not at all to the cow, but very much to those working with them. If a milker enjoys a type of music that is played they are more relaxed and happier around the animals and in turn the animals respond positively and produce a higher yield. If a milker doesn’t like the music played they are more prone to annoyance and anger, and in turn the cows respond negatively producing a lower yield When I started typing this I didn’t realize it was going to be that long. Soz 😀
If you find yourself near newark/Hanover ohio. You still can see the giant basket as of today. It is a mess and looks pretty bad but it still stands for now. I just saw it a week ago. There is a rumor it’s getting turned into a luxury hotel/spa but I haven’t seen anything official on it or any progress at all.
The word “unicorn” is derived from the genus species, “Rhinoceros Unicornus”, which is a single horned Rhinoceros indigenous to India and parts of the Middle-East. The unicorn was not depicted as an equestrian animal until the middle ages (around 1000 CE) in either England or Scotland depending on what historian you’re talking to.
Darth Vader did say ( Luke I am your Father)Back in 2012 there was a shift in reality. For people like me I have notice slight changes. I watched the empire strikes back more than a 100 times and i remember the first time i seen it. For many of us who did not make the switch this is the alternate reality. The Mandela effect is real…..
There is a reason NASA doesn’t appoint a dog to be their Chief Sniffer. The whole purpose of the the sniffer is to prevent bad/potentially bad smelling things aboard the shuttle. This is to save those inside the torture of being locked in an airtight space filled with disgusting odours for months on end.
It’s actually not Sam Adams on Sam Adams beer, it’s Paul Revere. Their portraits are right next to each other at the Massachusetts State House, where the brewers went to see a representation of Sam. They thought he was too ugly and opted for the better looking Paul Revere instead. Source: I was the head tour guide at the MA State House for a few years
Mrs Richards: “I paid for a room with a view !” Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) “That is Torquay, Madam.” Mrs Richards: “It’s not good enough!” Basil: “May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?…” Mrs Richards: “Don’t be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!” Basil: “You can see the sea, it’s over there between the land and the sky.” Mrs Richards: “I’m not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction.” Basil: “Why?! Because Krakatoa’s not erupting at the moment?
Fact check: Einstein did learn to drive just never got his license (the Driver License system came about post WWI). And no, Ulysses S Grant was not arrested for speeding while riding a horse.There were no speeding laws or speed limits during his lifetime. Notable fact: the implementation of the speed limit system and laws is not a safety mechanism, but rather a means of controlling fuel usage. Early cars going back to their invention, were highly inefficient averaging just five mpg by 1950. During the first major oil crisis speed limits were implemented to slow people down thus reducing gas prices. Another fun fact: multiple studies show that speeding doesn’t cause accidents, the act of speeding is never a causal force behind an accident; accidents are caused by either A) operator error, or B) unforeseen outside events (typically another operator’s error, or deer…)