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The Statue of Daniel Bliss
October 11th, 2016
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Statues all over the world represent different meanings. Some were built out of some individual narcissistic tendencies, while some have been built in recognition of people’s contribution to a group, institution, society or country. While these contributions might not shake the world, they helped shape societies and institutions, and leave a lifelong mark on the history of such entities. The life of Daniel Bliss was such for the Syrian Protestant College (now known as the American University of Beirut), who gave almost 40 years (as founder and president) to the university. From the days of little beginnings – 16 students and four instructors including Bliss as a professor – to where it stands today, the leadership and excellence of Daniel Bliss has played a major role. It is, therefore, no surprise that a statue was inaugurated and commissioned for him while he was alive. The 10-foot marble statue sculpted by Egyptian (Of course!) and Sudanese graduates – whose lives were touched by his life – of the university was commissioned and inaugurated in 1904. At the inauguration, overly the gentleman, Reverend Daniel Bliss turned attention from himself to the boys and the school. He remarked, “No block of marble was brought to us to be worked upon, but living boys and living men came to us from the East, from the West, from the North and from the South, to be influenced for good. They were all human and consequently imperfect; they were all human and consequently capable of perfection.” In the early 1950s, the statue moved around a bit, as the library was constantly moved and shuffled in a bid to accommodate more books and more students. In 1952, the statue was in the Jafet library, in the south end of the main reading room. In 1991 though, the statue suffered significant damage when an explosion occurred at the university. Debris from the library structure fell the marble statue, breaking off parts of the statue, including its head. Beyond the statue, the legacy of the man was the desire to help men obtain idealism – what he describes as being God-like – modeled after Jesus Christ. That quest and desire underpinned his actions as the president of the university while he was alive. Can you Reconstruct the statue? Image courtesy of: http://almashriq.hiof.no/lebanon/300/370/371/aub/1958/slide06.html |
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