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}} | year = | height_metric = | width_metric = | height_imperial = | width_imperial = | imperial_unit = ft | metric_unit = m | dimensions = | city = Cambridge, Massachusetts | museum = Harvard Yard | coordinates= | caption = "He gazes for a moment into the future, so dim, so uncertain, yet so full of promise, promise which has been }} ''John Harvard'' is a sculpture in bronze by Daniel Chester French in Harvard Yard, Cambridge, Massachusetts honoring John Harvard (16071638), whose deathbed bequest to the recently undertaken by the Massachusetts Bay Colony was so gratefully received that it was consequently ordered There being nothing to indicate what John Harvard had looked like, French used a Harvard student collaterally descended from an early Harvard president as inspiration. The statue's inscription 1638}}}}is the subject of an arch polemic, traditionally recited for visitors, questioning whether John Harvard justly merits the honorific ''founder''. According to a Harvard official, the founding of the college was not the act of one but the work of many; John Harvard is therefore considered not ''the'' founder, but rather ''a''founder, of the school, though the timeliness and generosity of his contribution have made him the most honored of these. Tourists often rub the toe of ''John Harvard's'' left shoe for luck, in the mistaken belief that doing so is a Harvard student tradition. ==Composition== ''The New York Times'' described the work at its unveiling: }} John Harvard's gift to the school was £780 andperhaps more importantlyhis 320-volume scholar's library: That he had died of tuberculosis, at about age thirty, was one of the few things known about John Harvard at the time of the statue's composition; as dedication orator George Edward Ellis put it: }} he rests for a moment from his converse with wisdom on the printed page, and raises his contemplative eye to the spaces of all wisdom. }} 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Harvard (statue)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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