Word: sundials
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...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...
...company's property. Chad hung on. Then Clayton cut down the woods to make streets for the modernized town that was to follow his coal-dusting activities. Vesper, Chad's young brother, assisted by the town-idiot Kurd Foster, saved the Weather Tree, an oak that served as sundial for the whole countryside. Thereafter Clayton concentrated his attention on coal-bricks and Thelma...
From a group of Girl Scouts, their famed "Buffalo" (Mrs. Herbert Clark Hoover) received a sundial on which was inscribed: My face only marks the sunny hours; what can you say of yours...
...nearly 50 years the sundial behind Holden Chapel regularly and impassively marked the passing of the minutes with the passage of the sun. "On This Moment Hangs Eternity," reads an inscription engraved on its circumference, but the dial is destined to register the time of day no longer...