Vellucci Offers $5 For Finding Bones Of John Harvard

City councillor Alfred E. Vellucci has offered a $5 reward for information leading to the burial places of John Harvard, as part of the Bicentennial Celebration which begins this month.

The Cambridge City Council adopted Vellucci's proposal last week, although Vellucci said yesterday that he would pay the reward himself.

If Harvard's bones are found, they will be buried at the corner of Garden Street and Mass Ave, Vellucci said.

"Personally I think the guy's a myth." Vellucci said, although he added that there is evidence that Harvard lived in Charlestown Village, which is now Winchester.

Oscar Hardlin, Pforzheimer University Professor, said yesterday that Harvard is "a very shadowy figure. All we know about him is that he gave these books."

The Cambridge Historical Society is accepting information about the bones."