Word: sundial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...memorial, an ornamental terrace and sundial, honors Governor Thomas Dudley of Massachusetts Bay Colony, one of the College's founders. Reached by stone steps starting between Wiggles worth A entry and Lamont, the memorial also consists of two semi-circular stone sists of two semi-circular stone benches benches located behind the Class of 1680 Gate on Massachusetts Avenue...
...sundial-terrace form was suggested by Miss Caroline Phelps Stokes, benefactress of the Governor Dudley Memorial...
Construction of a new memorial to Governor Thomas Dudley, one of the College's founders, has been started on the Massachusetts Avenue side of Lamont Library. The new memorial, an ornamental terrace and sundial, replaces the Dudley Gate on Quincy Street, which was removed to make room for Lamont...
...semi-circular stone benches, similar to those which supplemented the Dudley Gate, will flank the sundial and bear the inscriptions of the original benches. These read, "One of thy founders him New England know who staid thy feeble sides when thou wast low" and "who spent his state his strength and years with care that after comers in them might have share...
...turn the mind of a boy to romantic poetry -the rare sound of a horse's hoofs clopping past his father's lonely farm at night, the screaming, exotic peacocks at the neighboring manor house, the 1,200-year-old parish church that still bore, on the sundial over its porch, the Saxon inscription: THIS IS DÆGES SOL MERCA ÆT ILCVMTIDE (This is the day's sun mark at every tide). And when Read was nine years old, a glass jar filled with "black, blind and sinister leeches" was carried upstairs to his dying...