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AROUND THE QUADS
PHOTO: Eileen Barroso  1911 – Ivy ExplainedThe January/February issue featured this photo on the back cover, and we asked readers to tell us where it is. Four readers responded correctly that it is at the southwest corner of Hamilton Hall. Congratulations and thank you to John Carr ’72, Dr. Kenneth Heisler ’71, ’75 P&S, Javed Basu-Kesselman ’11 and David Dewhurst of the facilities department. But there’s more to the story. Last fall, the College celebrated the 100th birthday of Hamilton Hall, complete with a birthday cake and visits from an actor portraying Alexander Hamilton (Class of 1778) and Hamilton biographer Ronald Chernow. Construction on Hamilton Hall was begun in 1905, when a cornerstone with that date was laid, and completed in 1907. So, if this is not the building’s cornerstone, what does it, and 1911, represent? The clue is in the word, not the date. According to University Archivist Susan Hamson, the stone commemorates the year that ivy was planted near the building. Heisler had this correct as well, indicating in his answer, “There was a thick root below the inscribed stone, giving rise to a luxuriant growth of ivy that covered much of Hamilton.”
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