Ohio A&M

Millions, maybe billions on the football team, still no new gnomon.

The last time i walked the Oval was in 1975. I remember very little. I wanted to-day, to see the dinosaur skeleton in Orton Hall which arrived much later, and to see whether the sundial was functioning.  I saw a foto of it on the sundial registry, it was missing the gnomon. My nephew was not interested, or could not see why anyone would be interested in sundials, because every one reads time from their portable telephones. He doesn't entertain toward my Luddite tendencies. Well, to-day it was very overcast when we found it. It could not cast a shadow, anyway.

 

Orton Hall

bell tower

24 Mesozoic and Cenozoic animal heads act as grotesques

ornament of a dog and dragon chimera

stained glass and dinosaur skull

Orton Hall is one of two buildings from 1893 on campus. The first president of the school, Edward Orton, was a professor of geology. The building houses geological collections, and offices. It is by far the most interesting visually.

Cryolophosaurus ellioti

Behind the entrance doors, in the foyer rises a Jurassic carnivore, a replica of the largest dino skeleton from Antarctica, excavated in 1991 by geologist David Elliot, who was there in 2018 when it was installed at his school.

 

Jeff, Megalonyx jeffersoni

The previous star of the museum, was Jeff the Giant Ground Sloth from Holmes County. He's been there since 1896. Jeff is named for Thomas Jefferson, who thought Lewis & Clark might bump into living mega fauna. About 30% is actual bone, the rest fabricated from wood and plaster.

gift from the class of 1905 

Ohio was in Central Standard time zone then. Standard time was promoted by the railroads, it was not good to have two trains on the same track, unless you are Gomez Addams.

 

The Five Orders of Architecture (from right to left) Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Composite.

I also wanted to see the classical columns surrounded by Knowlton Hall. In 2002 Ives Hall was razed, amongst other things that were taught there was architecture. Austin Knowlton *1909, 2003†, replaced it in 2004, he did. He was a graduate, and built several buildings on this, and many other campuses. This hall was built as a gift. At the west entrance he had five 23' Georgia limestone columns made. They represent the classical orders:  Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite. The building has won several awards. I was intrigued by this huge classroom demonstration, beats a sketch seen from an overhead projector.

Ohio Stadium rotunda renovation borrowed from Paris' Pantheon dome.

idiots  

A continuing example of petty stupidity is the crossing out of the letter 'm'. I had read about this a long time ago, thought it was an occasional, or long past thing. It is not. It is found many times on campus.