{"id":1513,"date":"2024-04-26T20:11:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T20:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2025-05-29T17:18:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T17:18:33","slug":"class-1883","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/class-1883\/","title":{"rendered":"Fountain, Gift of the Class of 1883"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Class of \u201983 Fountain, likely when new. In the background, Prof. W. S. Holdsworth sits facing the 1882 addition to the Chemical Laboratory<\/a>, which he designed. Image source: MSU Archives<\/a><\/span>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Class of 1883 raised $250 to purchase this fountain, which it presented to the College in a ceremony on August 13, 1883. Eight feet, four inches in height, with a pool measuring twenty feet in diameter, it was located just east of the Botany greenhouses, south of the Chemical Laboratory<\/a>.1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fountain in former horticultural gardens, Natural Science in background, with lilac in bloom.
Spring 1994. Photo by Kevin S. Forsyth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Around 1927, the fountain with its central statuary was moved to the Demonstration Gardens southeast of the\u00a0Horticulture Building<\/a>\u00a0(\u201cOld Hort\u201d).†<\/a><\/sup> The basin was \u201cmade of a soft stone and was so badly eroded\u201d that it could not be salvaged. A fountain is still in operation in the pool directly behind the Student Services building, but the original statue has long been removed. The gift\u2019s current status is unknown to this author.2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Beal<\/a>, p.\u00a0244. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  2. Minutes<\/a>, 20 Oct 1927, pp. 724\u2013725. Lautner<\/a>, pp.\u00a055\u201356. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><\/ol>
    1. † Lautner puts the move in 1955, at the start of the Main Library build. However, the move was approved by the Board in October 1927, and the CADL Archive contains a postcard<\/a> showing the statue in its new location, with a postmark of 29 August 1938.\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The Class of 1883 raised $250 to purchase this fountain, which it presented to the College in a ceremony on August 13, 1883. Eight feet, four inches in height, with a pool measuring twenty feet in diameter, it was located just east of the Botany greenhouses, south of the Chemical Laboratory. Around 1927, the fountain with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"[{\"content\":\"Beal<\/a>, p.\u00a0244.\",\"id\":\"4ccccb59-fcca-4559-818a-78793be163e5\"},{\"content\":\"Minutes<\/a>, 20 Oct 1927, pp. 724\u2013725. Lautner<\/a>, pp.\u00a055\u201356.\",\"id\":\"3e979319-7e2b-4d9e-aacd-47567421d688\"}]"},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-m-a-c-campus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4819,"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions\/4819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}