The Definitive Ranking of the House Mascots
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Students in Mather House raise house spirit in front of University Hall. Upperclassmen stormed Harvard Yard on Thursday morning to start off Housing Day festivities.
Housing Day is coming up quickly and freshman anticipation is building. While certain people worry about house qualities like location, n+1 availability, and dhall food, the true sign of a good house is a good mascot. Using a very complicated, scientific algorithm, we calculated a best-to-worst ranking of the house mascots.
The mascot is a crucial cog in the ever-important Housing Day graphic t-shirt
1. Pfoho: Polar Bear
A consistent zoo animal favorite, the polar bear is an impassioned climate change activist and weighs enough to break the ice for incoming freshman.
2. Dunster: Moose
This mascot, hailing from Canada, can be found consistently bragging about his free health care and his handsome Prime Minister. He also speaks French and hangs out with Drake.
3. Quincy: Penguin
He is always down for some shenanigans ("smile and wave, boys"), and even though he’s always dressed up for a black tie event, he is not punching the Fly.
4. Mather: Gorilla
While this mascot spends most of his time trapped in the “concrete jungle” that is Mather, his many appearances in Housing Day videos definitely up his street cred.
5. Winthrop: Lion
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Although a Pride of Lions is a cute (yet kinda cliche) way to represent House spirit and community, it’s kinda forgettable.
6. Eliot: Mastodon
The mastodon is as extinct as Eliot's old money elitism. Oh wait...FĂŞte is still a thing.
7. Leverett: Rabbit
Everyone knows the rabbit is just a washed-up bunny. This mascot is better left in his rabbit hole.
8. Cabot: Fish
This mascot is fitting considering that to some, the feeling of getting Cabot on Housing Day is remarkably close to the feeling you’d get when you asked for a puppy and your parents got you a goldfish, but you eventually learn to love it anyhow.
9. Kirkland: Boar
This mascot screams evokes yawns of boardom. Seriously, who wants to be represented by a large pig?
10. Currier: Tree
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Really…a tree? Couldn’t think of something with legs?
11. Adams: Acorn
The only thing worse than the Adams Acorn would be an Adams Apple.
12. Lowell: Nothing
How can we express House pride if we have no mascot to take pictures with on Housing Day?
While, according to our complex algorithm, this ranking is definitive, remember: The only thing that really matters on Housing Day is what kind of life form is on your House t-shirt and whether or not it is insta-worthy.