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That is the myth of Rinehart. For 36 years the man John Rinehart did nothing to clear his name. Then finally, in 1936, he returned to the University as guest speaker at the tercentenary to present his own defense...
...Rinehart told his audience that one evening, when he had remained deaf to the cries of his friends on the path below his room, in Grays, another friend of his, Frank Simmonds, took up the cry from Matthews...
...Almost immediately," Rinehart said, "the Yard became a bedlam as the shouts rose into a chant, and the cry caught the fancy of the undergraduates who had been wearied by examinations and were wanting some way to relieve the precommencement tension." But John Rinehart spoke too late. He only added his version, which was officially recorded as truth in Samuel Eliot Morison's "Three Centuries of Harvard," to the original and more dramatic story...
...John Rinehart was embittered by the apparent immortality of the 'Rinehart myth,' or grieved by the number of riots and impounded bursars, cards which his name inspired, perhaps he might have felt happier when the account of a certain graduate reached this country from Cairo, Egypt. The graduate reported that he was set upon by beggars near Sheapard's Hotel, in the center of the city, and in his predicament shouted out "Rinehart." Five Harvard men ran from the hotel and drove off his attackers...
Save for that incident and the innocuous story of a group of Harvard men in Singapore who habitually greeted each other with the cries of "Rinehart," the legacy of John Rinehart revolves around the breaking of the general peace and quiet in many varied places...