Word: seale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your indulgence for a few comments on your editorial in this morning's issue on the subject of the Harvard Seal and Arms. Your statements show misapprehension both as to the significance of the Seal and the Arms and as to the attitude of the University in its effort to set up a distinction that rests on solid grounds of academic and heraldic usage...
...Harvard man may, as you suggest, be proud of his right to display the emblem of his University, but there is no right to display the corporate Seal of the President and Fellows. The Seal happens to contain the emblem but it is not itself the emblem. The Seal has no meaning whatever except to indicate that the document to which it is attached is an authentic, corporate...
Recently University Hall issued a dictum to the effect that the Harvard Seal may no longer be used on any but official documents. The statement, though not of world-shaking importance, nevertheless has that about it which irks the Harvard man proud of his right to display the seal of the greatest university in the land...
...longer head the stationery of undergraduates, proud of the gleaming red seal which is the symbol proclaiming his superiority to other men. It must be out from banners and doubtless divorced from the deadly bookend, that its presence be a not too obvious prop of learning. As a substitute the Harvard arms is offered--the seal minus the circumferential lettering and the Christo et Ecclesiae, but the very shape itself must be altered from the round. What remains is a castrated version, devoid of all meaning and shorn of he grandeur of tradition...
There is neither rhyme nor reason in this action. The seal in itself has long since lost whatever practical value it may once have possessed. Only as a living symbol does it acquire significance. Confined to diplomas and official stationery it forwith becomes a museum piece, completely stripped of the meaning which constant use by Harvard men confers upon it. And it is difficult to imagine who should have more right to its use or pride in its display than the undergraduates and graduates of the University...