This is the week all of the Harvard freshmen arrive so the main floor of the bookstore is decorated with these huge red banners with the Harvard crest on them. All I can think when I look at them is "Gryffindor!"
Does anyone know what the Harvard Law School crest means? What are these sheaves of grain? I had a first year law student come in this week searching desperately for the answer. He said he would be a hero to all of the first year law students if he found it. (Personally, I think he was exagerating. I know one of those students and I'm pretty sure he couldn't care less.) Speaking of Harvard Law, we also had a girl come in this week and explain how she was a law student who needed to buy her books, but she didn't know where the Law School was. Can we say Legally Blonde?
Posted by linnea at September 11, 2005 12:00 AMVeritas means truth. From my brief google searching forays, I learned that the crest is taken from the Royall family (Isaac Royall established the first professorship). Still don't know what the wheat actually means.
Check: http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=122037
Posted by: funkefreak at September 11, 2005 7:31 PMAccording to one heraldry website sheaves of wheat mean that "the harvest of one's hopes has been secured." I not quite sure what *that* means, but combined with veritas at the top, maybe it confidently conveys the hope that Harvard Law students will always seek the truth. (?)
Posted by: sarah at September 12, 2005 4:37 PMI hate that movie. And now I hate you for talking about it.
Posted by: wilhamish at September 14, 2005 9:16 PMI burnt dinner the other day. In honour of your blog. Now I know how to turn the fire alarm off in my apartment.
Posted by: funkefreak at September 15, 2005 5:54 PMI love blondes! hahahhaa
Posted by: tuggy at September 17, 2005 2:07 AMTuggy, your mom is blonde...
Posted by: funkefreak at September 17, 2005 9:13 AMNot actually true, -freak.
Posted by: Barfhead at September 20, 2005 4:39 PMI know...I just like to give Tuggy a hard time. :)
It was meant as one of those stupid "your mom" jokes....but I've never particularly figured out what they meant, and maybe they aren't good for public blog sites where context is dissolved into cybernothingness...I'm sorry, Tuggy.
Posted by: funkefreak at September 22, 2005 10:12 AM