LAWRENCE — Kansas University History Professor Emeritus Ted Johnson will conduct his annual Stop Day Walking Tour of various iconic buildings and sites along the KU campus on Friday. The tour runs Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and attendees are welcome to come and go as they please. It will start in front of the Natural History Museum or, in the case of inclement weather, in the portico of Lippincott Hall. At 9 in front of the History Museum, Johnson will discuss the interrelations of the Romanesque revival architecture and iconography of Spooner Hall and the Museum of Natural History. At 10 at Lippincott Hall, he’ll discuss the Daniel Chester French statue group, the ionic portico of Lippincott Hall, law and the seven liberal arts. At 11 at Twente Hall and the Prairie Acre, he’ll discuss Plato’s “Republic” and the campus’ garden. At noon, at Watson Library and across campus to Burge Union, he’ll talk about the architecture, and late Brutalism and the humanities building. At 2 at the law school, he talk about the idea that “civilization is measured by the extent to which people obey unenforceable laws.” At 3 at the Chi Omega fountain he’ll talk about the fountain and the Greek story of Persephone, Demeter and Hades, and pomegranates and wheat. At 4 at the World War II memorial Carillon and Campanile and the northern slopes of Mount Oread, he’ll talk about the memorials. At 5 at the Arthur D. Weaver Court, he’ll recap the day.
Updated 5/6/13 @ 11:15 pm
