U.S. Universities and Colleges
Posted: 30 Jan 2016, 18:43
Taking up Arthur's challenge for people to post images of universities in their own countries...and sticking to those that are passably heraldic, not including allegorical/pictorial seals.
Maybe I could start with the family of arms of Harvard University and its component parts and associated institutions.
Harvard University, founded as Harvard College 1636. The arms first appear in monochrome as the design for the college seal in 1643 and gradually acquired the gules field, gained and lost an argent chevron between the books, and finally were set in this form in the late 19th century. My emblazonment from the AHS website:
Harvard College, now the designation of the undergraduate component of the university, similar to the arms as used from the late 1600s into the 19th century.
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, apparently not much used. Adopted in the early 20th century as part of a project to create arms for all Harvard's components, primarily led by Pierre de Chaignon La Rose.
Harvard Medical School, by La Rose based on the arms used by the Massachusetts Warren family, of which the founder of the school was a member. The barrulet in chief should be azure and or.
More to come.
Maybe I could start with the family of arms of Harvard University and its component parts and associated institutions.
Harvard University, founded as Harvard College 1636. The arms first appear in monochrome as the design for the college seal in 1643 and gradually acquired the gules field, gained and lost an argent chevron between the books, and finally were set in this form in the late 19th century. My emblazonment from the AHS website:
Harvard College, now the designation of the undergraduate component of the university, similar to the arms as used from the late 1600s into the 19th century.
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, apparently not much used. Adopted in the early 20th century as part of a project to create arms for all Harvard's components, primarily led by Pierre de Chaignon La Rose.
Harvard Medical School, by La Rose based on the arms used by the Massachusetts Warren family, of which the founder of the school was a member. The barrulet in chief should be azure and or.
More to come.