{"id":258,"date":"2015-09-22T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alfredarchives.wordpress.com\/?p=258"},"modified":"2015-09-22T10:44:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T14:44:00","slug":"class-of-1876","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/2015\/09\/22\/class-of-1876\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of 1876"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/09\/1876-stone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-255\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/09\/1876-stone.jpg?w=211\" alt=\"1876 Stone\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/09\/building-front-sept2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-256\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/09\/building-front-sept2015.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"Building Front, Sept2015\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOver the entrance to the Steinheim building is a stone that many never notice, even though it&#8217;s in plain sight. Engraved with an enigmatic &#8220;76&#8221; it sits above the window just over the door. The July 1876 &#8220;Alfred Student&#8221; provides the answer to the stone&#8217;s history: &#8220;The Class of &#8217;76 have left a monument on the campus which is likely to be lasting. It consists of a huge irregular block of stone mounted on an ancient millstone for a pedestal. With its rude figures, &#8217;76&#8217; chiseled on its face, it is liable to be regarded by future generations as proof of the existence of Druids in America.&#8221; When Jonathan Allen, the University&#8217;s second president, constructed the Steinheim, he incorporated the engraved stone into the structure, certainly making it &#8220;lasting&#8221; and unique. If you look even closer, you can see a smaller &#8217;23&#8217; on the slim round stone over the &#8217;76&#8217; &#8212; signifying 1823, the year Allen was born.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the entrance to the Steinheim building is a stone that many never notice, even though it&#8217;s in plain sight. Engraved with an enigmatic &#8220;76&#8221; it sits above the window just over the door. The July 1876 &#8220;Alfred Student&#8221; provides &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/2015\/09\/22\/class-of-1876\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,76,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}