Word: sundial
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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...
...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...
...signs of our times point to two inescapable truths, the first of which is that we have come to the end of the post-Renaissance chapter of history which made man the measure of all things. . . . We are witnessing the death of Historical Liberalism . . . which, like a sundial, is unable to tell the time in the dark, and which can function only in a society whose basis is moral...
...hibernating during war's long winter, had come back to life with all its old razzmatazz. It had the familiar cigaret ads on the back cover, some amateur art work out front and the raveled raddled he-she jokes among the ads. Sample (from the revived Ohio State Sundial...
...famed alumni point with pride to their campus work). Princeton's Tiger boasts of names like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Booth Tarkington, Whitney Darrow Jr. The Yale Record printed Lucius Beebe, Stephen Vincent Benet and Peter Arno. Milton Caniff was art editor of the Ohio State Sundial. John P. Marquand, Gluyas Williams and the late Robert Benchley began on the Harvard Lampoon...