Clarkives
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A short history of Estabrook Hall
Clark University had been open for less than 20 years when a dining commons was constructed on the corner of Woodland and Charlotte streets. However, the growing University and undergraduate Clark College, established in 1903, quickly required more space. In the early 1920s, a $100,000 bequest from the estate of Arthur F. Estabrook —…
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G. Stanley Hall’s Monday evening seminar
Students left sessions ‘dazed and intoxicated’
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Clark University doesn’t have a football team. Why?
Clark University students have an opportunity to play on 17 different athletic teams, from tennis to rowing, basketball to lacrosse. But one sport is conspicuously absent — football. With the popularity of the sport on campuses around the country, why is that the case? It goes back to Carroll D. Wright, the first president…
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The early years of Jonas Clark Hall
Construction of Clark University’s “Main Building,” now Jonas Clark Hall, began in 1888, a year after the University was incorporated by an act of the Massachusetts legislature. Noted Worcester architect Stephen Earle was contracted to design the building, but University founder Jonas Clark put his own stamp on it. In fact, according to William Koelsch’s…
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Bobby Orr visits Clark Athletics, 1992
In the fall of 1992, Clark Athletics team captains got a chance to spend time with NHL Hall-of-Famer and Boston Bruins legend Bobby Orr.
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University Pond, 1930
The annual rope-pull contest across University Pond began in 1909, and pitted the freshman class against the sophomores. In 1926, the Class of 1930 — despite serious preparation — lost to the Class of 1929. However, in 1927, the Class of 1930 restored their honor by dragging the Class of 1931 into the water…
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Houdini’s near-Clark experience
Harry Houdini spent much of his life escaping from chains and straitjackets, but the one thing he never tried to elude was a robust intellectual argument. And he nearly had a doozy at Clark University. On November 29, 1926, Clark University faculty and students, along with members of the public, gathered in the auditorium of…
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A leap back into Clark history
Who remembers the Clark kangaroo? We don’t, either. But the scarlet-and-white marsupial, complete with a baby in its pouch and adorned with the letters CU, seems to have been a presence on the Clark campus in the late 1940s. The stuffed kangaroo has made it back to Clark as part of the disposition of…
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From the Clarkives: Woodland Street, 1964
The center of campus looked a little different almost 60 years ago — and not just because of the classic cars.
