Cohen House Sundial
Near the original main entrance of the Rice faculty club, Cohen House, on the side of the building that faces the inner loop road, is the Cohen House sundial, a gift of George and Agnes Cohen in 1965. Though the trees in the area have spread their branches significantly in the past half-century, making this spot a good deal shadier than it was when the sundial was installed, when the angle of the sun is right, it still functions.
Time is told by a beam of sunlight passing through a small aperture in the Cohen House coat of arms mounted on a spindle in the center of the sundial. As related in Centennial Historian Melissa Kean's Rice History Corner, the spindle originally resembled an arrow, but the metal arrowhead and "feathers" disappeared years ago. If anyone knows their whereabouts, the university would be grateful to retrieve them, no questions asked!