Kirkland Clock

The chimes of Kirkland Hall’s clock tower will ring five times on Dec. 21 in memory of Paul Wynn Young, who devoted more than 40 years to keeping Kirkland Hall’s signature clock and chimes in good working order. Read More

For the past 110 years, the hourly tolling of Kirkland Hall’s signature bell has alerted generations of students that they’ve overslept for economics class or that kickoff was imminent. For more than a third of those 110 years, the task of keeping the tower’s clock ticking has fallen to Paul Young. Read More

The Kirkland Hall bells will ring in a special pattern at noon on Thursday to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States. Read More

The bell inside the Kirkland Hall tower will fall silent Sept. 4 and 5 as long-awaited repairs are made to the tower’s clock, which stopped keeping time in mid-June. Read More

Caption this photo! Context: Repairs continue on the Kirkland clock [View the story "Our favorite Facebook comments of the week: It's about time" on Storify]… Read More

Eagle-eyed observers and those used to telling time by a campus landmark were the first to notice that something was amiss: The clock atop Kirkland Hall’s tower stopped keeping time last week. Read More