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So welcome to Harvard Yard.

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As you can see, all
the red brick buildings

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around here-- in fact all of these
buildings-- are freshman year dorms.

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So these are dorms that freshmen will
live in for only their first year

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at the college.

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But it's really great to have
a central nucleus of campus.

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>> Now, you might know some
of these freshman that

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have lived here at
various points in history.

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For instance, over
there in that dorm, we

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have Grays Hall, which is where
Natalie Portman took up residence

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during her freshman year.

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Over there, we have Holworthy Hall.

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You may know of Conan O'Brien.

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That's where he lived.

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>> And then some esteemed historical
figures we have right here in Hollis

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were Henry David Thoreau
and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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But a really cool fun fact is
right over here in Matthews.

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Matthews actually was
home to actor Matt Damon.

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But not just Matt Damon.

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In fact, Matt Damon and David Malan
had the same room at different points

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throughout their Harvard career,
which I think is pretty cool.

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>> But the real star of Harvard
Yard is actually right over here,

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the John Harvard statue.

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So the John Harvard statue is really
interesting for a couple of reasons.

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Its inscription reads, John
Harvard, Founder, 1638.

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>> Now, they call it the Statue
of Three Lies for a reason.

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Those three are all wrong.

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Now, the college was actually not
founded by a guy named John Harvard.

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It was founded by the
Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636.

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>> Now, there was a guy John
Harvard that donated a couple

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books to the university.

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That's why it's called Harvard today.

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So what about that third lie I
was talking about, John Harvard?

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Well, that's actually not John Harvard.

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In fact, no one really
knows what John Harvard

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looks like, because that
building over there--

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Harvard Hall-- was the
old university library.

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And it burned down.

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And when it burned down, it burned down
with it all likenesses of John Harvard.

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So to this day, no one
really knows who that guy is.

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>> So now we're going to actually move
on to our next stop on the tour.

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Follow me.

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So welcome to Harry Elkins
Widener Memorial Library.

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Now, this library has
a fun story, so I'm

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going to monologue for a little bit.

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>> Once upon a time, there was this man
Harry Widener, who graduated in 1907.

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Now, Widener loved books.

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He absolutely loved them.

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So as a graduation present, him
and his mom went on a journey

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to Europe to go on a rare book hunt.

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And they found all sorts of
first edition tomes and novels.

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And they were so
successful, they decided

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to travel back in style in this
fun little ship called the Titanic.

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>> So what happened was Harry and his mom
supposedly had gotten onto a lifeboat.

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But when Harry realized that he
had left his books on the ship,

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he supposedly jumped back on
and was never seen from again.

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So his mother was so devastated
at the loss of her son

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that she decided to have a library
built to commemorate his love of books.

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So that's why we have
Widener library today.

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>> But there's a couple interesting
things you may or may not

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know about Widener Library.

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Now this is interesting, because
Harvard's gotten a lot bigger

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since the Titanic sank.

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So what did they do when they
got lots and lots of books?

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>> In fact, they dug downward.

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If you look right behind me,
you see all of that grass.

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In fact, below that is
60 miles of shelving.

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The library goes down four floors.

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It's an absolutely incredible space.

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>> But what's really relevant is that
also located in Widener library

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is the site of the Hauser Studio,
recently completed this past January.

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Now what is the Hauser Studio?

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You may know it as actually
where CS50 live is shot.

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