SPEAKER 1: So welcome to Harvard Yard.
As you can see, all the red brick buildings
around here-- in fact, all of these buildings are freshman year dorms.
So these are dorms that freshman will live in for only their first year
at the college.
But it's really great to have a central nucleus of campus.
Now, you might know some of these freshman that
have lived here at various points in history.
>> For instance, over there in that dorm, we
have Gray's Hall, which is where Natalie Portman took up residence
during her freshman year.
Over there, we have Holworthy Hall.
You may know of Conan O'Brien.
That's where he lived.
And then some esteemed historical figures we have right here in Hollis
were Henry David Perot and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
But a really cool fun fact is right over here in Matthews,
Matthews actually was home to actor Matt Damon.
>> But not just Matt Damon, in fact, Matt Damon and David Malan
had the same room at different points throughout their Harvard career,
which I think it's pretty cool.
But the real star of Harvard Yard is actually right over here--
the John Harvard statue.
So the John Harvard statue is really interesting for a couple of reasons.
It's inscription reads John Harvard, Founder, 1638.
Now, they call it the statue of three lies for a reason.
>> Those three are all wrong.
Now, the college was actually not founded by a guy named John Harvard.
It was founded by the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636.
Now, there was a guy John Harvard that donated a couple
books to the university.
That's why it's called Harvard today.
But what about that third lie I was talking about, John Harvard?
Well, that's actually not John Harvard.
>> In fact, no one really knows what John Harvard looks like,
because that building over there, Harvard Hall,
was the old university library.
And it burned down.
And when it burned down, it burned down with it all likenesses of John Harvard.
So to this day, no one really knows who that guy is.
So now we're going to actually move onto our next stop on the tour.
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