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Dudley: Dudley House was named for Thomas Dudley (1576-1653), second governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Dudley House arms are based on the seal on Thomas Dudley’s will, which is on file in the Suffolk County House in Boston...

Author: By Joo-hee Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Explained | 11/1/2001 | See Source »

...commonly believed that President Dunster’s family coat of arms serves as the emblem of Dunster House. In actuality, when the House Shield was being designed, the designer searched for the Dunster family arms in England, and unintentionally based the shield design on the wrong Dunster family seal...

Author: By Joo-hee Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Explained | 11/1/2001 | See Source »

...Seize the Day.” There is no motto on the earlier arms of the Lowell family; most likely, Reverend John Lowell of Newburyport, the first one of the Lowell family to use arms in the United States, added the motto as a part of the family seal...

Author: By Joo-hee Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Explained | 11/1/2001 | See Source »

School of Education: The School of Education’s seal indicates Ezekiel Cheever, the most famous schoolmaster of seventeenth-century New England, and it is based on the arms that appear on the tomb of his grandson in the Charlestown burying ground...

Author: By Joo-hee Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Explained | 11/1/2001 | See Source »

...School: The seal of the law school features the arms of Isaac Royall, who founded the first professorship. His arms, as shown on his bookplate, were azure with three sheaves of gold...

Author: By Joo-hee Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Explained | 11/1/2001 | See Source »

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