ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
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SCULPTOR IN THE ZOOLOGICAL PARK 
Mr. Harvey constructed his model for the “Bronze 
Bruno” with great difficulty and immense application; 
seizing upon every fleeting movement of Ivan to build 
up the working figure. As the bear was inclined to 
take it easy, the sculptor was obliged to work out the 
figure bit by bit until it was completed. 
From Motion Picture Films by Elwin R. Sanborn 
thing for our college 
youth and will help to 
arouse and strengthen 
those fighting quali¬ 
ties which we want 
our boys to have and 
which will go far to 
make them invincible 
in athletics, as well 
as in life. 
We are sure that 
the artistic Bronze 
Bear we are going to 
set up will be a centre 
for undergraduate 
gatherings. Songs and 
poems will grow from 
this theme, and tradition will make of this 
spot a rallying ground for all those customs 
and celebrations which bring Brown under¬ 
graduates closely together. 
The bear has already been pictured on our 
programs and posters and in our college pub¬ 
lications, and “Brown Bear Bonds” raised 
the money for our Endowment and Develop¬ 
ment Fund. Since the newspapers commonly 
refer to the Brown teams as the “Bears,” is 
it not time to set up a model of a real bear 
in our grounds ? “Eli Harvey’s model of 
Ivan,” the great brown bear in the New York 
Zoological Park, has been accepted by the 
committee. Mr. Harvey is now putting the 
final touches on it so that the Gorham Com¬ 
pany may cast it in this city (Providence) 
some time in May. 
“The figure stands practically nine feet 
high. It will be mounted on a Rhode Island 
boulder which will have imbedded in it a 
the Lion House of the Zoological Park, the 
two pediment groups, and the lion heads on 
the wall of that building. These were exe¬ 
cuted in 1900. Other commissions were an 
American elk for the B.P.O.E.; a pair of 
lions for Toronto, Canada, and the eagles on 
a facade of the Victory Arch, New York City. 
Mr. Harvey was selected by the American 
Numismatic Society to design a medal por¬ 
traying the American bald eagle, as the 
national emblem, to commemorate America’s 
entrance into the World War. 
The bear has been Brown’s mascot, cele¬ 
brated in song and story for years, and a bear 
in the grounds will be an inspiration to the 
undergraduates as an 
actual totem for the 
expression of their 
college spirit in the 
four years when col¬ 
lege spirit is most 
alive. 
It has often been 
said that most gifts 
to colleges take little 
if any note of the 
eternal spirit of youth 
which makes its home 
on a college campus. 
We believe a magni¬ 
ficent bronze bear 
will be an inspiring 
