The Class of 1934 gave the university a sundial. According to the Nov. 8, 1934 Sunflower, it had been placed on campus, and a picture shows two students checking their watches by it.
The picture does not identify the location. Another picture of the sundial is in the 1935 Parnassus (left), but it, too, does not give a location. Pictures of Jardine Hall show the sundial located just west of the hall, near its south end.
The brass sundial is 14 inches in diameter. Around the rim, in raised letters, is “GROW OLD ALONG WITH ME THE BEST IS YET TO BE,” a Robert Browning quotation. Father Time appears in bas relief. “Class 1934” has been engraved on the sundial.
An early 1950s picture clearly shows the sundial, but the gnomon is missing. The sundial was apparently removed in the mid-1950s and placed in storage. The base was not retained. The sundial later disappeared, but was returned to campus this past summer.
