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Today's fun fact: Harvard motto was not always 'Veritas'
By adamg on Fri, 05/15/2015 - 8:29am
The Harvard Gazette reports that while Harvard adopted the Latin word in 1643, it soon ditched that for a more ecclesiastical "In Christi Gloriam" - and later "Christo et Ecclesiae."
It was, of course, everybody's favorite Boston phrase maker, Oliver Wendell Holmes himself, who got the U to get back to basics, with an 1880 poem urging its re-adoption.
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The U?
I only know one U, and Harvard is not it.