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Alma Mater (New York sculpture) : ウィキペディア英語版 | Alma Mater (New York sculpture) ''Alma Mater'' is a sculpture of the goddess Athena by Daniel Chester French which is located on the steps leading to the Low Memorial Library on the Morningside Heights campus of Columbia University in Manhattan, New York City. Sculpted in 1903〔, p.497〕 and installed in 1904, it was donated in memory of alumnus Robert Goelet of the Class of 1860 by his wife, Harriette W. Goelet.〔Richman, Michael. ''Daniel Chester French: An American Sculptor'' (The Preservation Press, 1976, reprinted 1983), pp. 90–96: discussion of the commission, creation and installation of the sculpture.〕 ''Alma Mater'' The statue has become a symbol of the university. An owl is hidden in the folds of ''Alma Maters cloak near her left leg,〔Durante, Dianne. ''Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide'' (New York University Press, 2007), p. 230〕 a symbol of knowledge and learning,〔 and college superstition has it that the first member of the incoming class to find the owl will become class valedictorian. The legend at another time was that any Columbia student who found the owl on his first try would marry a girl from Barnard. In 1962 the statue was gilded, but the gilding was removed after protests.〔 In the 1960s and 70s, the radical group the Weather Underground planned to blow up the statue, but these plans were shelved after the group managed to blow much of itself up inside a Greenwich Village row house instead. ==See also==
*Alma mater
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