The statue of three lies

If you were still wondering about the Harvard statue, it's actually based on the figure of a man named Leonard Hoar, who also contributed a lot to the founding of the college. Most of the original founders got houses named after them, like Harvard House, etc, but Leonard Hoar didn't, for a very simple reason. A respectable college like Harvard would never have been taken seriously or have been respectable at all if it had advertised "Hoar House" as one of its main attractions on campus. So Leonard Hoar got a statue instead.