Since I mentioned the Harvard houses and Yale colleges in connection with the houses at Penn, I thought members might enjoy taking a look at the Harvard houses. I believe the arms of all seven of the original houses, founded in the early 1930s (denoted by asterisks), were designed by Pierre de Chaignon La Rose.
*Adams House
http://www.heraldrysociety.us/presidents/images/adams-harv.gif
Cabot House
(Can’t find a good image: arms are "Or three chabots [fish] hauriant Gules.")
Currier House
(Can’t find a good image: "Gules an apple tree surrounded at the base by a bench Or, in chief on a bar Argent a barrulet engrailed Sable.")
Dudley House
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dudley/images/shield.png
*Dunster House
(Can’t find a good image: "Gules three stags’ heads caboshed a bordure Or.")
*Eliot House
http://www.digitas.harvard.edu/~eliot/Eliot_House/Pictures/menus/Eliot_Banner2.jpg
*Kirkland House
Gules on a cross Sable fimbriated Argent three mullets in fess of the same.
http://static.flickr.com/2/2111384_975c7a78a2_m.jpg
I think that’s all the pics I can load in one message; remainder to follow.
*Leverett House
(A leveret is a young hare, so these are canting arms. They are officially "Argent a chevron between three leverets courant Sable," but are often depicted in green and gold, as those are the colors of the house’s intramural sports teams.)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0b/Leveretthousecrest.png
*Lowell House
(Although this is a B&W picture, the arms are in fact argent on sable.)
http://lowell.harvard.edu/pics/loho_arms_200.gif
Mather House
http://www.mather.harvard.edu/images/topnav2b.png
Pforzheimer House
http://oeyweb.com/timoey/articles/2001/noho_shield_color.gif
Two more to come.
Last two Harvard houses:
Quincy House
(I believe these are the undifferenced arms of the noble English house of De Quincey—not the best choice. One thing that is good, however, is that the same basic pattern with lozenges instead of mascles is used for the blades of the oars of the house’s rowing team, which is a nice application of heraldry, even if the heraldry itself is flawed.)
http://hcs.harvard.edu/~quincy/pre-law/images/title.gif
Finally,
*Winthrop House
Joseph McMillan wrote:
Last two Harvard houses:
You’ve forgotten Kirkland (Gules on a cross Sable fimbriated three Mullets Argent), to which I take exception as a former resident. (I’ve also lived in Adams and Lowell.)
Daniel C. Boyer wrote:
You’ve forgotten Kirkland (Gules on a cross Sable fimbriated three Mullets Argent), to which I take exception as a former resident. (I’ve also lived in Adams and Lowell.)
No, Kirkland’s up there in the first post-he just couldn’t get a picture of it.
There is a picture—it’s just of the banner of the arms rather than the arms themselves.
Daniel C. Boyer wrote:
You’ve forgotten Kirkland (Gules on a cross Sable fimbriated three Mullets Argent), to which I take exception as a former resident. (I’ve also lived in Adams and Lowell.)
Their flag is up there, at the bottom of the top post. A nice flag, actually, in stark contrast to the "beautifully complicated" (gag) arms of some of the Penn houses.
My favorite of these is the Pforzheimer CoA. I just love the graphic quality of it! Would that be "Per bend Sanguine and Sable a bend dancetty counter dancetty counterchanged and fimbriated Argent"?
Found a good picture of the arms of Cabot College:
http://cabot.harvard.edu/HouseLife/Pictures/Random/Shield.jpg
Patrick Williams wrote:
My favorite of these is the Pforzheimer CoA. I just love the graphic quality of it! Would that be "Per bend Sanguine and Sable a bend dancetty counter dancetty counterchanged and fimbriated Argent"?
My guess is that it is (correct me if I am wrong): Per bend Gules and Sable four delves conjoined in bend throughout counterchanged fimbriated Argent all within a bordure Argent.
There is supposed to be a black border, according to the Harvard newspaper, but it does not appear in drawings.
http://oeyweb.com/timoey/articles/2001/noho_shield_color.gif
