Fugato

This statue is located prominently in Harvard Yard at the heart of Harvard University’s campus in Cambridge. It is an old custom for students to rub the toe of its left shoe for academic prosperity. That toe is shiny golden because of this, while the rest of the statue is blackened with age.

It is commonly called the Statue of Three Lies. That is because it carries this inscription:

JOHN HARVARD

FOUNDER

1638

Harvard University was not founded in 1638.

John Harvard did not found it.

And that’s not John Harvard. Some student posed for the sculptor. John Harvard sucked at posing, on account of being dead.

But more amusing than that is the expression on the face of the guy in the red shirt. I have enlarged it here for your viewing pleasure.

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