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Ivan Mestrovic Comes To Syracuse University, William P. Tolley

The Courier

This article, written by former Syracuse University Chancellor William P. Tolley, tells the story of his efforts to secure a professorship for famous Yugoslavian sculptor Ivan Mestrovic, who at the time had legal and health problems while living in Europe.

Ivan Mestrovic: The Current State Of Criticism, Dean A. Porter

The Courier

Few artists have had careers as long and prolific as Ivan Mestrovic's, and even fewer have known as much success and recognition. It would require volumes of print to document completely and properly, to discuss, and to evaluate the quality and scope of his sculptural, architectural, and literary accomplishments, and then additional volumes to duplicate the many monographs, essays, and articles that have been written about him. A brief mention of these accomplishments and a short review of the art-historical and critical comments on them will provide us with a point of reference from which to consider his position, as …

A Reminiscence Of Stephen Crane, Paul Sorrentino

The Courier

John S. Mayfield (1904-1983), a curator of rare books and manuscripts at Syracuse University from 1961 to 1971, assembled a small, but noteworthy, collection of material by and about Stephen Crane (1871-1900), one of the University's most famous students. Mayfield himself published several articles on Crane, including three in the Syracuse Library Associates Courier, which he edited from 1962 to 1970. Judging from Mayfield's own notes, one can conclude that he intended to publish, perhaps in the Courier, the following brief reminiscence of Crane.

Ivan Mestrovic, Laurence Schmeckebier

The Courier

This article is an amalgamation of two pieces written by Professor Schmeckebier: "The Art of Mestrovic", which prefaced the catalogue of the spring 1984 exhibition of Mestrovic's work at The Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery at Syracuse University, and an as yet unpublished paper entitled "Mestrovic as a Sculptor in America," which he gave at Columbia University in November 1982 at a seminar sponsored by The Institute on East Central Europe.

The article details Mestrovic's life and contributions to art, whose monumental sculptures are on the same level as other greats such as Rodin and Michelangelo.

The Development Of The Eastern Africa Collection At Syracuse University, Robert G. Gregory

The Courier

With the inauguration of an African studies program in 1962, Syracuse University began the development of a unique collection of records relating to the eastern side of Africa. The most important part of the collection, the core, is related to Kenya, but there are also valuable records on the other countries of eastern Africa, nine in all, extending from Ethiopia to South Africa. Most of the items in this collection are on microfilm—an extraordinary holding of nearly four thousand reels of official and private records—but there is also much of value in supplementary books, periodicals, and documents in their original …