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Armillary Sphere is a great sundial cast in the design of that ancient astrological instrument, the armillary. Man and woman repose at its base; the goat, the lion, the bear, the ram, pursue each other in its wheels, while the armillary seems to spin, with slow laughter, through interstellar space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Manship | 2/16/1925 | See Source »

...Three memorials to the late Calvin Coolidge Jr. are to be erected at Mercersburg Academy, his preparatory school: 1) A cross in the new chapel, given by Mrs. Coolidge; 2) a "sunshine corner," consisting of a series of bird baths, a sundial, benches, flowers, shrubs, etc., suggested by Mrs. Coolidge for the campus; presented by the school; 3) a portrait of Calvin Jr. to be painted by an artist as yet unnamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Dec. 29, 1924 | 12/29/1924 | See Source »

...Class treasury, leaving a balance of $107.06 to meet any possible expense before the Junior Collection should be made. Credits to Date. Balance from '14-'15 $442.99 Recd. from Red Book 300.00 Class Collection 1,129.93 Sale of Dinner Tickets 336.60 Interest 13.88 Total $2,223.40 Expenditures to Date. Sundial $205.00 Printing 17.50 Typewriting 10.24 Ballots, postals, tickets 25.30 Smoker in Union 168.13 Student Council Dues 10.00 Flowers 6.50 Finance Committee Pledges 1.30 Class Banquet 667.50 Total $1,111.67 Total Credits 2,223.40 Total Expenditures 1,111.67 Balance $1,111.73 Disposition of Balance. 1918 Senior Album Fund $303.00 1918 Senior...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUNIORS FINANCES WELL UP | 10/4/1916 | See Source »

...beginning its first stanza with a verse that suggests a different metre from what is coming. The conception of "Sonoratown" is better than the execution, which is metrically uncomfortable. The sonnet "On the First Movement of Mahler's Fifth Symphony" is able writing, but not clear. "On a Sundial" is a pleasing but unsatisfying epigrammatic quatrain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Review of Monthly by Dean Briggs | 11/27/1906 | See Source »

...Bellows '06; "Sonoratown," by W. H. Wright sC.; "The Poetry of Edward Rowland Sill," by H. E. Cory 1G.; "Sea-Mist," by J. H. Wheelock '08; "The Travel Papers of Arminius, III--Concerning a Paradise or Two;" "When Granada Came to Almeria," by R. Altrocchi '08; "On a Sundial," by C. H. Dickerman '07; "The Tale of the Holen Squad," by H. Hagedorn, Jr., '07; "The Vision of Fulfilled Desire," by R. J. Walsh '07; "On the First Movement of Mahler's Fifth Symphony," by H. W. Bell '07; Editorial, Book Notices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Contents of the December Monthly | 11/26/1906 | See Source »

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