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Clemson University doctoral candidate A.D. Carson takes photos with admirers after defending his dissertation in the Watt Family Innovation Center auditorium, Feb. 24, 2017. Carson, a candidate in Clemson’s Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design (RCID) Ph.D. program, produced a 34-track rap album titled “Owning my Masters: The Rhetorics of Rhymes and Revolutions” as opposed to the traditional written dissertation. (Photo by Ken Scar)
The British horror movie tells the fictionalized story of Matthew Hopkins, the most famous real-life witchfinder general. It featured so many torture and violence scenes that it had to be heavily censored by the British Board of Film Censors and was still considered by many critics unacceptably gruesome. In the U.S., however, it was shown virtually uncensored and proved to be a box office success.
Clemson Tigers wide reciever Hunter Renfrow reads a “Clifford the Big Red Dog” book to elementary school children during a celebration of the Tigers Read! initiative at the Clemson Indoor Practice Facility, June 9, 2017. The initiative is sponsored by Dabo Swinney’s All In Team Foundation and has delivered customized Scholastic book packs to nearly 1,200 students across South Carolina that help prevent the decline in reading skills many students experience during summer months. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Original Crystal Ball from the Wizard of Oz
1939, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
On loan from Jay ’77 and Eileen ’76, MBA ’78 Walker and The Walker Library of Human Imagination
The Oz crystal ball is a transparent hand-blown glass globe with an open neck at the bottom, similar to a dry lightbulb. It is not perfectly spherical but very slightly egg shaped. Experts have painstakingly authenticated the artifact by mapping slight imperfections (bubbles) in the glass, then matching them with images of the crystal ball as it appeared in the film.
Two Clemson University Reserve Officers’ Training Corps cadets practice a combat sling carrying technique during a community outreach training day on the Clemson campus, March 16, 2017. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Staff Sgt. Ken Scar)
Volunteers with the Clemson University Student Veterans Association stack care packages in the Richard M. Campbell Veterans Nursing Home in Anderson, S.C., Oct. 21, 2017. This was the second year the CSVA delivered packages to veterans in the home. Each box contained a hand-written note from a member of the Clemson Family. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Retired U.S. Army Col. Ben Skardon, 99, a survivor of the Bataan Death March, gets a photo with volunteers at water station one of the Bataan Memorial Death March at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., March 19, 2017. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Staff Sgt. Ken Scar)
Retired U.S. Army Col. Ben Skardon, 99, a survivor of the Bataan Death March, shares a laugh with supporters during the Bataan Memorial Death March at White Sands Missile Range, March 19, 2017. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Staff Sgt. Ken Scar)
Clemson University doctoral candidate A.D. Carson answers a question (that was given in the form of a rap) from Clemson professor Dr. Chenjarai Kumanyika during his dissertation defense in the Watt Family Innovation Center auditorium, Feb. 24, 2017. Carson, a candidate in Clemson’s Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design (RCID) Ph.D. program, produced a 34-track rap album as opposed to the traditional written dissertation. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Lachlan the Tiger takes a moment to smell the bright orange flowers in front of Tillman Hall, June 21, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Tanner Fogle proposes to his girlfriend, Erin Mayor, on the Clemson University campus, May 19, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Clemson University Tiger Band director Dr. Mark Spede conducts the band during a rehearsal on their practice field at sunset Nov. 15, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
A volunteer with Clemson Hope, a student-led nonprofit, hands out Christmas presents to children at James M. Brown Elementary School in Walhalla, S.C., Dec. 8, 2017. Clemson Hope collected more than 1,100 gifts over the course of two months to give to local school children in Title 1 elementary schools. (Photo by Ken Scar)
U.S. Army Maj. Chris Bland, assistant professor of military studies at Clemson University, and his son Evan survey the scene before his promotion ceremony in Military Heritage Plaza, March 28, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Families, students, faculty, staff and administrators came together to celebrate the college, student achievement, and larger community.
Families, students, faculty, staff and administrators came together to celebrate the college, student achievement, and larger community.
Memorial Hall Tower
It was for generations the focus of Harvard life… Even the townspeople were beholden, for anyone who lived within a quarter mile could see the face of one of the clocks and hear the tolling of the quarter hour.
—Bainbridge Bunting, Harvard An Architectural History
The tower was the last portion of Memorial Hall to be completed. When the building was formally turned over to the Corporation in 1877, the tower soared an impressive one hundred ninety-five feet but was far less ornate than as depicted in the architects final rendering of the building.
In 1878, Ware and Van Bunt were fortunate to have the opportunity to modify the tower design with the addition of dormers, pinnacles, and more elaborate cresting.
The most dramatic change to the tower came in 1897 when the class of 1872, upon the occasion of their twenty-fifth reunion, provided funds for an ornate clock tower.
In 1945, the copper detail and iron cresting were removed from the tower, presumably as part of a metal drive for the second world war. In 1956, the top portion of the tower was lost in a fire that was reportedly ignited by a welder’s torch during maintenance, reducing the overall height of the building by one third and eradicating the building’s great pyramidal shape.
Gifts from Katherine B. Loker and other friends of the University facilitated the reconstruction of the tower in 1999. Historic preservationists supported the architectural team of Childs Bertman Tsekares in a design that reflects the “clockless” tower of 1878. On May 14, 2000, at a ceremony dedicating the reconstructed tower, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Jeremy R. Knowles reflected, “At last, Memorial Hall has grown again, and can have the effect that Henry James wrote about in The Bostonian: ‘It looked significant; it covered a large area, and it sprang, majestic into the winter air.’”
Clemson University graduate student Gabby Nugent shares a laugh with author Brando Skyhorse during the 10th annual Clemson Literary Festival, March 31, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Families, students, faculty, staff and administrators came together to celebrate the college, student achievement, and larger community.
Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Jimmy Mullinax speaks to participants of Clemson University’s third annual Walk for Veterans at a tail gate after the event, March 8, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Adyson Scar chats delivers a care package to U.S. Navy veteran Charles Ray Davis aka “Chef Charles” at the Richard M. Campbell Veterans Nursing Home in Anderson, S.C., Oct. 21, 2017. Scar was with a group of Clemson student veterans who delivered more than 200 packages to veterans in the home. Each box contained a hand-written note from a member of the Clemson Family. (Photo by Ken Scar)
The cast of Clemson University’s production of The Diviners, a play by Jim Leonard Jr., run through the show during a tech rehearsal in the courtyard of the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, April 13, 2018. The production was originally slated to run in the blackbox theater inside the center, but was forced to tear down, reconstruct and hold performances outside in the courtyard when a colony of bats was discovered in the building. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Adyson Scar helps maneuver a cart full of care packages through the hallway of the Richard M. Campbell Veterans Nursing Home in Anderson, S.C., Oct. 21, 2017. Scar was with a group of Clemson student veterans who delivered more than 200 packages to veterans in the home. Each box contained a hand-written note from a member of the Clemson Family. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Clemson University professor Victor Vitanza standw with doctoral candidate A.D. Carson before Carson defends his dissertation in the Watt Family Innovation Center auditorium, Feb. 24, 2017. Carson, a candidate in Clemson’s Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design (RCID) Ph.D. program, produced a 34-track rap album titled “Owning my Masters: The Rhetorics of Rhymes and Revolutions” as opposed to the traditional written dissertation. (Photo by Ken Scar)
•Title: The Bather
•Collection: Campus Artifacts, Art & Memorabilia
•Creator(s): Lipchitz, Jacques (French sculptor, 1891-1973, active in the United States) Male
•Date: 1962; 1923-1925
•Acquisition Date: 1962
•Culture: French
•Style/Period: Cubism
•Work Type: Statues
•Description: “The Bather statue by Jacques Lipchitz 1891-1973, gift of Harold D. Uris and Percy Uris. 1962.” Harold David Uris (1905-1982) Cornell 1925
•Percy Uris (1899-1971). In Sculpture Court, John M. Olin Library. For further information, see: olinuris.library.cornell.edu/history/lipchitz
•Donor: Uris, Harold D. and Uris, Percy
•Repository: Cornell University
•Repository Location: John M. Olin Library, Cornell University
Restored and revitalized, Song of the Vowels enjoys a newly-designed setting on the plaza between Olin and Uris libraries. Cornell University acquired the sculpture in 1962. Since that time, Song of the Vowels has been a fixture on the south end of Cornell’s Arts Quad, and a favorite gathering spot.
Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz created Song of the Vowels in 1931, and had it cast in a limited edition of seven copies, of which Cornell’s is the fifth. Other copies may now be found at Princeton University, UCLA, Stanford University, at Nelson Rockefeller’s Kykuit Gardens and at museums of modern art in Europe.
Born in Lithuania as Chaim Jacob Lipchitz, the artist spent much of his early career in Paris, working alongside Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque as a leader of the Cubist movement. The Cubistic attributes of his style are perhaps better displayed in the Bather, produced between 1923 and 1925, and also owned by the Cornell University Library.
Lipchitz’s Bather is a monumental study of geometric forms and intersecting planes that pivot around a central axis: the human bather’s torso. Bather was one of the last pieces Lipchitz created that can be considered strictly Cubist. Although his debt to Cubism is always apparent in his work, Lipchitz also drew inspiration from mythology, fantasy, and emotion to create expressive sculptural works. Song of the Vowels, created a few years later, represents a significantly different stage in Lipchitz’s oeuvre. While Bather is calm and carefully measured, Song of the Vowels is animated and energetic.
Lipchitz explained his inspiration for Song of the Vowels this way:
I had been commissioned to make a garden statue for Madame de Maudrot for her house at Le Pradet, in the south of France, designed by Le Corbusier. I was entranced by the location, a vineyard with mountains at the background, and since I was still obsessed with the idea of the harp, I decided to attempt a monument suggesting the power of man over nature. I had read somewhere about a papyrus discovered in Egypt having to do with a prayer that was a song composed only of vowels and designed to subdue the forces of nature … I cannot explain why the image of the harp and the Song of the Vowels should have come together except that both of them were in my mind at the same moment.
The design for Olin Library included a small sculpture court in an exterior alcove on the eastern side of the first floor, visible from the main reference area through a glass wall. As the building of Olin Library was nearing completion in 1961, a committee was charged with selecting sculpture for both the Olin Library sculpture court, and for the plaza between Olin and Uris libraries. The committee’s goal was to find modern sculpture of international renown. In January 1962, a major exhibition of Jacques Lipchitz sculpture came to Cornell’s Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art. With urging from art professor Jack Squier, the committee recommended the acquisition of Jacques Lipchitz’s work. Trustee Harold D. Uris, Class of 1925, and his brother, Percy, generously provided funds for both sculptures. Bather was installed in June of 1962, while Song of the Vowels came to its home at Cornell in October of the same year. Olin’s sculpture court has been replaced by a corridor that links Olin Library with the underground Carl A. Kroch Library, which opened in 1992.
After nearly 50 years as a landmark on the Cornell campus, concerns for the preservation and maintenance of Song of the Vowels led to an examination of the physical structure. Small holes had developed and were allowing moisture to penetrate the bronze and compromise the structure, so the sculpture was sent to the Williamstown Art Conservation Center for expert scientific analysis and conservation treatment. The planned return of Song of the Vowels provided an excellent opportunity to redesign the plaza between Uris and Olin Libraries, and landscape architect John Ullberg was hired to re-conceptualize the installation. He created a communal space that focuses attention on the sculpture, placed atop a limestone pedestal in a plaza that incorporates granite pavers, stone benches and new landscaping. The restored sculpture has now come back to its home, where it is appreciated by a new generation of Cornellians.
The Bather, too, has a new location. It now stands near the entrance to Olin Library, within sight of Song of the Vowels.
Sara Reeves, a fiscal analyst for Clemson University, shares a moment with a Korean War veteran at the Richard M. Campbell Veterans Nursing Home in Anderson, S.C., Oct. 21, 2017. Reeves was there with a group of Clemson University student veterans, family members, and staff members delivering who delivered more than 200 packages to veterans in the home. Each box contained a hand-written note from a member of the Clemson Family. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Volunteers with the Clemson University Student Veterans Association deliver a care packages to U.S. Navy veteran Charles Ray Davis aka “Chef Charles” at the Richard M. Campbell Veterans Nursing Home in Anderson, S.C., Oct. 21, 2017. This was the second year the CSVA delivered packages to veterans in the home. Each box contained a hand-written note from a member of the Clemson Family. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Clemson University doctoral candidate A.D. Carson takes questions during his dissertation defense in the Watt Family Innovation Center auditorium, Feb. 24, 2017. Carson, a candidate in Clemson’s Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design (RCID) Ph.D. program, produced a 34-track rap album as opposed to the traditional written dissertation. (Photo by Ken Scar)
TigeRoar, Clemson University’s all-male a cappella ensemble, searches campus for women to serenade and hand out roses to for Valentines Day, Feb. 10, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Retired U.S. Army Col. Ben Skardon, 100, a beloved alumnus and professor emeritus of Clemson University, greets members of the Class of 2018 project committee during their project reveal, Dec. 7, 2018. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Clemson University communication strategist Tara Romanella stands on the set for a production of “Godspell” at the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Retired U.S. Army Col. Ben Skardon (back to camera in orange shirt) greets well-wishers during his 100th birthday celebration at Clemson University, Aug. 11, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Three Clemson University nursing students show off the roses they received from Clemson’s a-male a cappella ensemble TigeRoar after a surprise serenade after class, Feb. 10, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
U.S. Air Force Maj. Brock Lusk, Clemson University assistant professor of aerospace studies, holds his 11-month-old daughter, Annabelle, on Clemson’s Military Heritage Plaza, Nov. 3, 2017. Lusk was adopted as a baby and he and his wife Jill (right) adopted Annabelle. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Ten-year-old Naja Rivers shows off her toothpick and marshmallow structure during a STEAM workshop held at the former Holly Springs Elementary School near Pickens, S.C., Feb. 27, 2018. The school, closed in 2017 by the Pickens County school board in a cost-cutting move, would become the Holly Springs Center under a plan devised by Clemson University student Abby Baker, a Ph.D. candidate in learning sciences. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Clemson University doctoral candidate A.D. Carson prepares to defend his dissertation in the Watt Family Innovation Center auditorium, Feb. 24, 2017. Carson, a candidate in Clemson’s Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design (RCID) Ph.D. program, produced a 34-track rap album titled “Owning my Masters: The Rhetorics of Rhymes and Revolutions” as opposed to the traditional written dissertation. (Photo by Ken Scar)