List, I just received this from David Marans; it includes an interesting discussion of how Peirce came to be featured on a mural at Johns Hopkins.
Best, Gary R Gary. Peirce is featured on a mural at Johns Hopkins University. The mural is on the CSP page in my Open Access *Logic *Gallery. The gallery which has a full page for each of 178 figures since Aristotle, is a free download at http://humbox.ac.uk/5497/ <https://peircesociety.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2d67a1b536f133c3e9f9d5d8c&id=a0e0eb9fc2&e=0c7ad465a8> In 1939, Johns Hopkins alumnus Alfred Jenkins Shriver died, leaving $800,000 to the university. In his will, Shriver stipulated that the funds be used to construct a new lecture hall on the Homewood campus. He provided a lengthy list of conditions to be met if the university were to accept the money. These conditions included the creation of murals depicting the Original Board of Trustees of Johns Hopkins University, the Original Board of Trustees of Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Original Faculty of Philosophy, the Original Faculty of the School of Medicine, Six Generations of the Shriver family, Baltimore Clipper Ships, the Class of 1891, Philanthropists of Baltimore, and Famous Beauties of Baltimore. In the 1950s, the university began construction of the building and commissioned artist Leon Kroll to paint the entrance murals. With the help of Johns Hopkins registrar Irene Davis, Kroll collected physical descriptions, photographs, and costumes to accurately portray the individuals named by Shriver. In 1956, the lobby murals made their debut. Peirce was on a year-to-year contract in the mathematics department as a lecturer in logic, but with neither rank nor tenure. After five years his contract was not renewed, because of a scandal in his marital and non-marital life. But during those five years he founded and led the Metaphysical Club which had members from several departments including many men from the Philosophy department. Peirce presented many papers at the club’s meetings and gained the admiration of all members. By the time the artist researched the matter, Peirce had already become recognized as one of, if not the, most famous American philosophers. So in recognition of this, the artist Leon Kroll <https://peircesociety.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2d67a1b536f133c3e9f9d5d8c&id=885bda62df&e=0c7ad465a8> included Peirce (see arrow, far left). The reason Peirce is not wearing an academic robe is because his only degree was a BA from Harvard. ********************************************** Feel free to use the above in any manner you see fit, including ARISBE. Yours, Prof. David Marans St. Thomas University Florida, USA =================== A Clerk ther was of Oxenford also, That unto logyk hadde longe y-go...... Sownnge in moral vertu was his speche, And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.
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