Clarkives
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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.
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1905: Theodore Roosevelt delivers the first undergraduate commencement address at Clark
U.S. president urges ‘honesty, courage, and common sense’
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Lindbergh’s visit, memorable rope pulls, and a must-read newspaper
A flea market find illuminates a slice of Clark’s past
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Do you know the mustard man?
Barry Levenson’s museum pays homage to the ‘king of condiments’
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Oct. 19, 1899: Robert Goddard’s ‘Anniversary Day’
‘Existence at last seemed very purposive’
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Clark friends’ hidden paper trail
1908 document discovered in Jonas Clark Hall
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Benchley backdrop
A dispatch from the Who Knew?! Department: The former home of Worcester native and famed humorist Robert Benchley (1889-1945) once stood at the very Main Street location of Clark’s new Alumni and Student Engagement Center. Benchley, a prominent writer for The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, and later an Oscar-winning short-film director, may be…
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Antarctica or bust: Clark’s southernmost research
For almost a century, Clark scientists have traveled to the frozen continent to understand its impact
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Canadian columnist invokes century-old study on raccoon intelligence
Clark University has tentacles everywhere, and this year they touched the great trash removal debate in Region of Peel, Ontario (surely you heard about it). A Feb.17 column in the Caledon Enterprise addressed the region’s $46 million plan to collect garbage in oversized bins as part of the new biweekly waste-collection schedule. Then there’s…