Hahvahd Aftah Dahk

2006-04-30

Updated: 2012-01-24

Listen Up: Just Say 'Ah'[a], because as we all know:

John Winthrop [b] dropped the R into the Hahbah one day on his way to the State House and we didn't find it until the Big Dig [c].

For a reference on this subject, please see the Wicked Good Guide to Boston English [d].

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The wealthiest university in the world, part of the Ivy League [e] and comes with a never [f]-ending [g] intra-league [h] rivalry [i], Harvard University is situated in Cambridge, which is more-or-less a part of Boston.

Physically getting there is easy - just take the red line to Harvard and exit Harvard Square. You'll end up just outside the southwest corner of Hardvard.

2006-05-01 14:23

Boston, USA Grand Tour 2006

The statue of John Harvard, commemorating his founding of the university in 1638. Actually, that sentence has three lies in it:

John Harvard didn't found the university, he just donated so much to it that it was named after him a couple of years after is was founded.
The university was founded in 1636.
The person depicted isn't John Harvard - nobody knows what he looked like. Somebody else sat as model.