<p>The Crimson? What the heck? Who's idea was that?!</p>
<p>yeah its kinda weird to be like, YEAH!! GO CRIMSON!!</p>
<p>actually that doesnt sound that bad... harvard is cool.</p>
<p>It's a COLOR though >:(</p>
<p>technically john harvard is the mascot.</p>
<p>zogoto: where in arizona are you from? I'm a freshman at harvard, but phoenix is my hometown.</p>
<p>I'm from Chandler. What school did you go to? I go to Corona del sol.</p>
<p>I went to Arcadia.</p>
<p>It's not so bad not having a mascot in the strictest sense. You quickly learn to get over it.</p>
<p>Is Harvard's mascot like a big, walking, crimson sphere with arms and legs?</p>
<p>no, its a puritan cantab</p>
<p>What's a cantab?</p>
<p>People who are really sad that Harvard doesn't have a mascot probably picked the wrong school.</p>
<p>Well it's actually more that other people like to make fun of me for liking Harvard since it has no mascot. I mean they're not REALLY criticizing, because, hey, its Harvard, but still.</p>
<p>I'd say its better than having a TREE as a "mascot" however, like Stanford.</p>
<p>Dartmouth is wrestling with this problem. They lost the Dartmouth Indian, because he was politically incorrect. Some students feel unfulfilled by being "The Big Green" and have tried to adopt "Keggy" - a routund beer-keg creature.</p>
<p>The administration at Dartmouth, which is ultra liberal and ultra PC, is absolutely mortified, and has banned "Keggy" from all official functions.</p>
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<p>Actually, I was at the Harvard/Penn game today (Harvard 29, Penn 3) and had a chance to survey the Penn "mascot" - a paper mache "Quaker" character - up close and personal. Struck me as pretty cheesy and pathetic.</p>
<p>I, personally, love the stanford tree. But maybe thats just because of the drunken revelry that the tree and the band engages in around my local streets in Palo Alto</p>
<p>You can get drunk without the stimulus of some kid dressed up in a tree costume, can't you?</p>
<p>ha harvard has some of the smartest people at its school and one of the stupidest mascots lol! actually, its not to bad; at least its unique, not like a tiger half the country uses for its mascot. (including my school, and the school in the town 15 min away)</p>
<p>I don't know what to say Byerly...the tree seems to be a unique fit to the crazy carousing the band does. If it were an eagle in front of them...it wouldn't seem so uniquely off-beat and Northern Californian.</p>
<p>Kids get drunk all over. There's nothing "uniquely Northern Californian" about it.</p>
<p>Byerly, you rock my world</p>
<p>Byerly, not the getting drunk part...the combination of extremely smart kids wearing california casual clothing hopping around an expensive shopping/dining district but in truth, surrounded by a lot of young tech execs who wish they were still having that much fun. anyway...its not worth arguing over, I think.</p>