Word: sundials
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mary read to him. In his black scull cap and snowy beard, Watts looked more & more like a Titian portrait. As he grew old, moral philosophy became his chief interest. In the last years of his life he would pause in the garden as he passed the terra cotta sundial given him by his wife, to look at his own motto upon it: "The Utmost for the Highest." "That is the best thing I ever did, to think of that motto," he used...
...Becker, middle-aged outdoor editor of the Chicago Tribune, whose patter is peppered with gee whizzes and holy smokes, is No. 1 U.S. dogcaster. Dog-lovers for a decade have faithfully tuned in on his expert Chats About Dogs; his best-selling How to Raise & Train Your Puppy (Sundial; $1) is a standard reference work. Among his own dogs are several blue-ribbon winners. Becker's sideline claim to fame is that he discovered a new subspecies of bat in Bolivia which Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History named after him: Eumops Bonariensis Beckeri...
...balcony and a steak supper will feature the Spring dance at Kirkland House on May 14 with the music of George Auld. This spring has been a trying one for Kirkland House, for in April two ancient cars were deposited in the Kirkland court and just recently the Deacons' sundial was found painted in a manner resembling a barber pole. After this episode it was threatened that the dance would be postponed, but the confession of the culprits in time meant that the dance would go on as scheduled. Carter Leslie, House Athletic Secretary feels fairly sure that Kirkland will...
...There has-been a show-down," Kirkland Housemaster Walter Eugene Clark, '03 curtly revealed last night, "and the spring formal will go on as planned." This proclamation came on the heels of an announcement made last week that unless the sinners who painted the sacred sundial a brilliant shade of crimson confessed, he would call off the spring dance...
...exceedingly poor spirit in the Maintenance Department. An old alibi in the archives speaks of removing the machinery to the church opposite, but the church was not built until 1833, three years after the earliest handless picture. Another flaw in the church excuse is that President Weber put a sundial on the building in 1810, so the clock must have run down before then. Anyway, the archive record says that the Board of Overseers was to appoint a committee to see that the churchmen kept their clock right. No one living has seen hide nor hair of any such committee...