{"id":6210,"date":"2021-07-27T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6210"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:39","slug":"beneficence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6210","title":{"rendered":"BENEFICENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One Ball State landmark really caught my imagination when Melissa and Samuel and I visited the campus a few weeks ago. It is the statue of an angel named Beneficence, i.e. &#8220;charity or the doing of good&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beneficence was completed in 1937 by sculptor Daniel Chester French, more widely known for creating the statue of Abraham Lincoln sitting in the Lincoln Memorial in D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was created to honor the legacy of the 5 Ball brothers whose jar industry gave them the means to financially found the university years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210713_153816_HDR-1.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em;text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1152\" data-original-width=\"2048\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210713_153816_HDR-1.jpg\" width=\"640\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The five columns represent the brothers, but she herself represents education as an ideal.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a teacher, I love the imagery: With her right hand she beckons anyone who would come to her and in her left hand she holds a box of unknown treasures!<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210713_153738_HDR-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Ball State landmark really caught my imagination when Melissa and Samuel and I visited the campus a few weeks ago. It is the statue of an angel named Beneficence, i.e. &#8220;charity or the doing of good&#8221;.\u00a0 Beneficence was completed in 1937 by sculptor Daniel Chester French, more widely known for creating the statue of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6213,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6210\/revisions\/6213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}