A sculpture of Calhoun appears on the exterior of Harkness Tower, a prominent campus landmark.

Harkness Tower, Yale University

Harkness Tower at Yale

Harkness Tower is a prominent Collegiate Gothic structure at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.

Harkness Tower is 216 feet ( 66 m ) tall, one foot for each year since Yale's founding at the time it was built.

In reality, the Washington Monument has been the tallest free-standing stone structure in the United States since it was completed, long before Harkness Tower was built.

The witticism, attributed to various modernist architects, that had he to choose any place in New Haven to live he would select the Harkness Tower, for then he " would not have to look at it ," is apparently apocryphal, derivative of a similar story told of Alexandre Dumas and the Eiffel Tower.

* Article " The Character of Harkness Tower " by Tritia Yamasaki, Yale class of 1996

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The Yale Memorial Carillon ( sometimes incorrectly referred to as the Harkness Carillon ) is a carillon of 54 bells in Harkness Tower at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

They were installed in Harkness Tower in 1922 and were first rung by John Taylor on June 9, 1922.

Yale tour guides like to perpetuate the myth that Harkness Tower was once the tallest free-standing stone structure in the world, but needed to be reinforced because an eccentric architect poured acid down the walls to make the tower look older.

However, the Washington Monument has been the tallest free-standing stone structure in the United States since it was completed, long before Harkness Tower was built.

* Harkness Tower

* Harkness Tower in Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States is completed after 4 years of construction.

The current society compound commands the most prominent location on campus beyond Harkness Tower and the Memorial Quadrangle, gifts from Anna M. Harkness, the mother of Charles Harkness and Edward Harkness.

Extant Farrand private gardens in the eastern U. S. are: the Bliss family's Dumbarton Oaks in Georgetown, Washington, D. C .; the Harkness summer home ' Eolia ' in Waterford, Connecticut ( 1918 – 1924 )-now preserved as the Harkness Memorial State Park ; and the Rockefellers ' estate ' The Eyrie ' in Seal Harbor, Maine.

* Harkness Memorial State Park is a recreational area that provides a picturesque view of Long Island Sound.

* Adjacent to the Harkness Memorial State Park is Camp Harkness for the Handicapped, a summer facility for children and adults with physical and / or mental disabilities.

The tower was constructed between 1917 and 1921 as part of the Memorial Quadrangle donated to Yale by Anna M. Harkness in honor of her recently deceased son, Charles William Harkness, Yale class of 1883, and the second son of Stephen V. Harkness, an early investor in the company that became Standard Oil.

Its original 10 bells ( an instrument with a range of less than two octaves is referred to as a chime-the Harkness Memorial Chime-rather than a carillon ) were cast by the John Taylor Bellfounders of Loughborough, England, in 1921.

The new fully chromatic 4. 5 octave carillon was named the Yale Memorial Carillon to avoid showing preference to either the Harkness or the Crofut gift.

" The Hall " sits fronted by York Street and surrounded by the Yale Daily News Briton Hadden Memorial building, the Yale Drama School and theatre ( both gifts from E. Harkness ), and the former homes of the Fence Club ( or Psi Upsilon, 224 York Street ), DKE ( 232 York Street ) and Zeta Psi ( 212 York Street ).

In 1917, it was demolished and replaced by the Harkness Quadrangle dormitory.

The Memorial Quadrangle at Yale University, USA, was donated by Anna M. Harkness with Harkness Tower named in memory of her son, Charles Harkness, Yale Class of 1883.

The Quadrangle contains Harkness Tower, the most visible symbol of Yale on the New Haven skyscape, which is placed on an axis which unifies it to the Old Campus.

In 1933, a donation from Edward Harkness began the residential college system at Yale, splitting the Quadrangle into its two colleges, and adding midsized elements such as masters ' houses, fellow's quarters, and dining halls.

* Yale University, Sterling Memorial Library, Harkness Tower and the Memorial Quadrangle

Jonathan Edwards College is styled as neo-gothic quadrangle, similar to the adjacent Harkness Memorial Quadrangle.

* Harkness Memorial Quadrangle ( later renovated and subdivided by Rogers in 1933 into Branford and Saybrook Colleges ) and Harkness Memorial Tower, Yale University, 1921

Among the first settlers of this region were S. J. Harkness, T. H. Thomas, William Burrows, O. G. Kimball, D. D. Green, A. H. Earll, R. McKecheney who were attracted by the immense ranges for their cattle.

Stephen's sons Lamon V. Harkness and William L. Harkness were both born in Bellevue and went on to become extremely wealthy from the Harkness investments in Standard Oil.

In 1925, the Commonwealth Fund Fellowships ( later renamed the Harkness Fellowships ) were established to reciprocate the Rhodes Scholarships by enabling British graduates to study in the United States.

In the episode " Bad Wolf ", Trine-e and Zu-Zana were two robots acting out a deadly futuristic version of What not to Wear, offering a makeover to Jack Harkness in a most gruesome form.

Aside from this, supporting characters like Bolivar Trask, Nick Fury, Captain America, Destiny, Agatha Harkness, and Amanda Sefton were all taken from the X-Men comic, usually serving to homage to originals without necessarily staying completely faithful to their form.

That summer, Paul Ince, David James, Jason McAteer, Rob Jones, Tony Warner and Steve Harkness were all sold, while Steve McManaman left on a Bosman free.

Farnborough clinched the title at home against Windsor & Eton with a 1 – 1 draw thanks to a goal from captain Paul Harkness and were promoted to the Southern League Premier Division.

In the spinoff series Torchwood, in the first episode of the second series, another time loop is mentioned, where main character Captain Jack Harkness and his partner John Hart were trapped in a two-week time loop for five years.

The living quarters were made possible by philanthropist Edward S. Harkness.

The final few cars were made by the Harkness and Hillier hire car company in Sydney.

In 1961 the Fellowships were renamed the Harkness Fellowships.

Frank Lloyd Wright is said to have been asked where he would choose to be if he could be anywhere in the U. S. and responded that he would pick Harkness Tower so he would not have to look at it. Branfordians were known as " Towermen " before Yale became coeducational, alluding to the fact that Harkness is a part of Branford.

The second batch of Ninth Doctor novels — comprising The Deviant Strain, Only Human and The Stealers of Dreams — were released in September 2005 and expand on the Doctor and Rose's travels with Jack Harkness.

The other partners were Norman C. Fletcher ( December 8, 1917-May 31, 2007 ), Jean B. Fletcher ( 1915 – September 13, 1965 ), John C. Harkness ( b. November 30, 1916 ), Sarah P. Harkness ( b. July 8, 1914 ), Robert S. McMillan ( April 3, 1916 – March 14, 2001 ), Louis A. McMillen ( October 21, 1916 – May 8, 1998 ) and Benjamin C. Thompson ( July 3, 1918 – August 21, 2002 ).