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By Nancy Spitler<\/b> \u201cThese fantastic exaggerations smile down<\/span> in unholy glee or frown with devilish intent upon all who pass by, and seem to issue a flagrant challenge to the unwary student to meet and overcome the obstacles in his chosen profession\u201d \u2014 that\u2019s how the April 10, 1929, issue of The Tiger <\/em>describes the somewhat humorous faces that peer down at you from between the
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<\/a>These grotesques began as clay models created by Rudolph Edward \u201cPop\u201d Lee and were carved by the H.R. Hupffman Company of Atlanta. They are based on the likenesses of different faculty members at the college in 1925, with the grotesque representing architecture probably modeled after Lee himself.<\/span><\/p>\n
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