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CLARK MEMORIAL ORGAN DEDICATED
Mrs. Clark's Magnificent Gift Officially Dedicated on Saturday
With the College Chapel filled to overflowing, amid solemn prayers, fitting speeches and thrilling strains of music from both throat and pipes, the new five thousand dollar pipe organ was officially dedicated to the memory of the man whose bequest made possible this addition to our college, Mr. Charles Heber Clark, journalist and author.
The exercises were opened by a selection on the organ, "Festal Prelude in C", by Ralph Kinder, one of Philadelphia's most distinguished organists. President George Leslie Omwake then made formal announcement of the gift of the organ from Mrs. Clark, after which Rev. George Handy Wailes, D. D., in a feverent prayer to the Almighty dedicated the instrument to all things highest and of His kingdom. Following this Mrs Henry Hotz, the soloist of the day, sang "With Verdure Clad" in such a sweet yet strong soprano voice as to appeal to the most fastidious lover of vocal music.
An Adress, "Music as an Element of Culture", by Professor Daniel Gregory Mason of Columbia University followed. He said in substance: Due to the development of scientific investigation education during the nineteenth century has tended to become specialized. However, realizing the ultimate futility of this coure, a movement has recently started urging that a liberal education means the development of the passive susceptibilities as well as the active capacities and this better liberates us from our narrow selves. Literature and music are important agencies in this. Literature is detailed and concrete. Music is indefinite and hence important for some of our moods are too "general" to permit of the details of literature.
How can music by studied? The latest tendency is to study music for appreciation rather than for technique.
FAMOUS MUSICIANS THRILL STUDENTS
Mr. Ralph Kinder and Mrs. Henry Hotz Entertain at Organ Recital
As a most fitting climax to one of the greatest days in the history of Ursinus came the organ recital on Saturday. A large and intelligently enthusiastic audience more than filled all the available seats in Bomberger. During the entire evening, those present gave their undivided attention and enthusiastic applause to the highly successful efforts of the artists of the evening, Mr. Ralph Kinder, organist, and Mrs. Henry Hotz, soprano, both of Philadelphia.
The wonderful new Haskell Organ, the memorial to Mr. Clark, seemed to unerringly resound to the skillful and artistic handling of Mr. Kinder as he interpreted each number of the diversified and well chosen program. Through all possible shadings of tone and power, in the use of solo stop and combination, and in the stirring thunder of the great organ, the organist showed himself to be a master artist and carried his audience with him even as he controlled his instrument. Mrs. Hotz, as soloist, completely captivated the audience.
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Clark Memorial Organ Dedicated/Famous Musicians Thrill Sudents
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The organ was dedicated on the Saturday past with famous musicians in attendance to play the new organ and sing with an organist accompaniment.
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Ursinusiana, The Ursinus Weekly, 1916-1917, October 23, 1916, p 1.
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October 23, 1916
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The Executive Committee of the Board of Directors has awarded the contract for building and installing the new Clark memorial organ to C.S. Haskell, Inc., of Philadelphia. A thorough investigation into the specifications submitted by numerous organ manufacturers was made by the special committee appointed by the Board for this purpose, and on recommendation of this committee the contract was awarded the Haskell company. The organ will be located on the second floor in the arch over the rostrum of the chapel and will occupy the space now used as a corridor. A passage around the organ champber will be provided. The builders have agreed to have it ready for use by the opening of college in September.
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The New Organ
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The committee awards the contract for the organ
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Ursinusiana, The Ursinus Weekly, 1915-1916, May 22, 1916, p 7.
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May 22, 1916
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Donation of $5,000 for Memorial to Late Charles Heber Clark
On Thursday morning last, the professors and students of the college were given a great surprise when President G.L. Omwake made the announcement at the chapel service that Mrs. Elizabeth K. Clark of Conshohocken, Pa., had presented a check for $5,000 to the college. It is the donor's wish that this money be used in placing in the college auditorium a pipe organ as a memorial to her husband, the late Charles Heber Clark.
In speaking of this gift, President Omwake stated that the college would not only have this valuable addition to its equipment, a means of education especially desirable in an institution devoted to liberal culture, but that it will be to the everlasting honor of Ursinus to have in its very heart this handsome memorial to a man so distinguished as Mr. Clark.
In recognition of his learning and many accomplishments in the world of letters the college was pleased to confer upon him a few years ago the degree LL. D. Mr. Clark was a valuable member of the Advisory Council and always took an active interest in the administration and advancement of the college.
Throughout America and England, Charles Heber Clark was widely known as a novelist by the pseudonym of his earlier literary career, "Max Adeler." His most popular writings are, "Out of the Hurly Burly," "Captain Bluitt," "In Happy Hollow," and "The Quakeress." He was connected with journalism since 1865 and later became owner of an industrial journal in Philadelphia. For ten years he was secretary of the Manufacturer's Club, Philadelphia, and edited the Manufacturer, the official organ of the club. He was a recognized authority on the subject of economics.
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College to Receive Memorial Organ
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In memory of her late husband, Mrs. Charles Heber Clark donates $5,000 for Ursinus College to buy a pipe organ.
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Ursinusiana, The Ursinus Weekly, 1915-1916, February 21, 1916, p 1.
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February 21, 1916
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Students of Dr. Calvin Yost Jr's Literature 20 class and any observant chapel-goers have noticed the oblong gold plate on the wall directly beneath the gold organ pipes in the front of Bomberger chapel on which are inscribed the following words: "In Memoriam, Charles Heber Clark, LL.D., 1847-1915."
The pipes belong to a $5,000 organ installed at the College October, 1916 and used until the present electric organ was bought recently. The pipe organ was donated to the college in memoriam to Mr. Charles Heber Clark, journalist and author, by his widow, Emily K. Clark, of Conshohocken.
This organ was installed at Ursinus during the fall of 1916 at the same time as the hardwood floors and new seats for the chapel. The dedication ceremonies on October 21 at three o'clock in the afternoon and the organ recital that evening by Ralph Kinder, a well known Philadelphia organist, are very eloquently described in the October 23, 1916 issue of the Weekly. According to this glowing account the organ was "officially and everlastingly dedicated" to Clark by Dr. George Leslie Omwake, president of the College, "amid solemn prayers, fitting speeches and thrilling strains of music from both throat and pipes" in a chapel "filled to overflowing."
The speaker for this occasion was Dr. Daniel Gregory Mason, a well known composer and writer of critical essays on music, who was head of the Music department of Columbia university at that time. Mrs. Henry Hotz sang at both afternoon and evening sessions. The organist, Ralph Kinder, is not only still living, but he is presenting an organ recital for the Norristown Octave club in the Christ Evangelical and reformed church at Noble and Marshall streets, Norristown, on Wednesday afternoon, March 21, at 2:30 p.m.
Few students realize that this same Clark is one of the later American humorists with quite a literary reputation to his credit. He was born in Berlin, Maryland in 1847, was employed on the staff of the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1865 and he continued in the profession of newspaperman for the remainder of his life. His literary reputation rests on one book of humorous sketches about life in a suburban town; he signed this book of sketches, Out of the Hurly Burly, with his penname, Max Adeler. Selections from this book are still included in surveys of American literature. Clark also wrote three novels, two volumes of short stories and other rather serious works which tell of life in Maryland and Conshohocken, his "home territory."
In his later years Clark founded the Manufacturer's club of Philadelphia, advocated higher protective tariffs before the Ways and Means committee in Washington [D.C.] and tried industriously to live down his earlier reputation as a humorist. His picture in an old Ursinus Weekly shows him to be a typical, well-to-do businessman at the turn of the century--complete with short-clipped mustache and high, stiff collar. Thanks to the generosity of the widow of this author Ursinus acquired its first organ.
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The article talks about the organ that was installed in 1916 by Mrs. Emily K. Clark, the widow of Mr. Charles Heber Clark. She made the purchase and installation of the instrument possible. There is brief discussion about the dedication of the organ to Mr. Clark's memory, and a section outlining that Mr. Clark is the same famous newspaperman for the Philadelphia Inquirer, American humorist, and writer of the time . The article was written because of a plate hanging on the wall under the organ pipes that read, "In Memoriam, Charles Heber Clark, LL.D., 1847-1915"
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Ursinusiana, Ursinus Weekly, 1950-1951. March 12, 1951, pg. 2.
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March 12, 1951
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