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SPEAKER 1: 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 freshman 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 Gray's 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 Perot
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, in
fact, Matt Damon and David Malan

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had the same room at different points
throughout their Harvard career,

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which I think it's 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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It's 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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But 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 looks like,

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because that building
over there, Harvard Hall,

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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
onto our next stop on the tour.

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Follow me.

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