Is Harvard Ready to Abandon Slavery-linked Seal?

A coat of arms designed to honor the Royall family, depicting three bundles of wheat, has served as the seal of Harvard Law School since 1936. But now the school is re-examining the 80-year-old emblem amid fresh outrage at the slave-owning family. Isaac Royall Jr. left a bequest in 1781 that later endowed Harvard’s first law professorship in the late 18th century.