College Report

Time memorial!

The wraps are off Lorado Taft’s 110-foot-long concrete sculpture The Fountain of Time on the western Midway Plaisance. Since April 1999, when restoration began on the 1922 work, the somber procession of human figures has been sheltered under a makeshift roof. Most of the $430,000 conservation tab was covered by the Ferguson Fund, the same group that gave Taft $50,000 to begin the sculpture in 1912.

Photo by Dan Dry