John Harvard

John Harvard may refer to:

  • John Harvard (clergyman) (1607–1638), English clergyman after whom Harvard University is named
  • John Harvard (politician) (born 1938), journalist, politician and office holder in Manitoba, Canada
  • John Harvard, the mascot of Harvard University's Harvard Crimson
  • Jack Harvard (born 1946), mayor of Plano, Texas

Famous quotes containing the words john and/or harvard:

    “Quintilian [educational writer in Rome about A.D. 100] hoped that teachers would be sensitive to individual differences of temperament and ability. . . . Beating, he thought, was usually unnecessary. A teacher who had made the effort to understand his pupil’s individual needs and character could probably dispense with it: “I will content myself with saying that children are helpless and easily victimized, and that therefore no one should be given unlimited power over them.””
    —C. John Sommerville (20th century)

    “Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises very well, considering we never controlled him much.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)