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*[http://www.morningside-heights.net/sundial.htm Morningside-Heights.net photos of the Sundial] | *[http://www.morningside-heights.net/sundial.htm Morningside-Heights.net photos of the Sundial] | ||
*[https://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/history.php History of the Sundial] | *[https://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/history.php History of the Sundial] | ||
| − | *[http:// | + | *[http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2006/10/18/where-sundial Where is the Sundial - The Spectator 10-18-06] |
*[http://media.www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2002/05/07/ArtsEntertainment/116th.Was.Gnomons.Land-2038876.shtml 116th Was Gnomon's Land - The Spectator 5-7-02] | *[http://media.www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2002/05/07/ArtsEntertainment/116th.Was.Gnomons.Land-2038876.shtml 116th Was Gnomon's Land - The Spectator 5-7-02] | ||
| − | * | + | *http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2001/12/05/student-quest-sundials-lost-ball Student on Quest for Sundial's Lost Ball - The Spectator 12-5-01] |
*[http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/jan02/jan02_letterseditor.html Restoring the Sundial - Columbia College Today January 2002 (Letters to the Editor)] | *[http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/jan02/jan02_letterseditor.html Restoring the Sundial - Columbia College Today January 2002 (Letters to the Editor)] | ||
Latest revision as of 21:37, 11 May 2013
The Sundial is a fixture of campus geography, located at the center of College Walk at the opposite end of Butler Plaza from Butler Library. The sundial is a campus landmark and a popular site for readings, speeches, advocacy, and meeting up.
Though only the base remains today, originally a giant granite sphere sat on the base and indicated the date of the year by the shadow it cast on the base. The sphere developed a crack in 1946 and was removed. It eventually disappeared from storage and recently turned up in Michigan. Efforts to return it to campus have failed.
The brass inserts on the base were designed by William Ordway Partridge CC 1885, and represent a cycle of a day: Torches of the Morning; Increase of the Dawn; Chanticleer; Sun Rise; Love Awakening; Boiling the Pot; Love Crowning the Hours; Love at Play; Love Tempers the Night Wind; The Evening Star; Love Piping to the Moon; and Voices of the Night.
The plot of the 113th Varsity Show centered around the missing sundial ball. In the musical, the sphere was stolen in 1946, and is returned at the end of Act 1.
The other sundial
As it were, The Sundial is not the only sundial on campus. There is an actual working sundial located outdoors between Pupin Laboratories and CEPSR.[1]
External links
- Morningside-Heights.net photos of the Sundial
- History of the Sundial
- Where is the Sundial - The Spectator 10-18-06
- 116th Was Gnomon's Land - The Spectator 5-7-02
- http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2001/12/05/student-quest-sundials-lost-ball Student on Quest for Sundial's Lost Ball - The Spectator 12-5-01]
- Restoring the Sundial - Columbia College Today January 2002 (Letters to the Editor)
