“Perspectives on the Monuments of Mount Oread: A Stop Day Walking Tour of Kansas University” will be led by Kansas University professor emeritus Ted Johnson from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. today. Participants can come and go during the tour.

The morning program includes the Romanesque Revival architecture and iconography of Spooner Hall, 9 a.m., Natural History Museum; the Daniel Chester French statue group, the Ionic portico of Lippincott Hall, law and the seven liberal arts, 10 a.m., Lippincott Hall; the quotation from Plato’s “Republic” inside the door of Twente Hall and the campus as a garden with the Prairie Acre and sculptures, 11 a.m., Twente Hall; the four fools and the conflation of ecclesiastical and civil elements of the College Gothic northern facade of the University Library, the Romanesque Revival eastern facade of Stauffer-Flint Hall, brutalism and the humanities building, the glass pyramid of the science library, the military science building and 1943 and Murphy Hall, noon, Watson Library and then to Murphy Hall.

Lunch and conversation will be at 1 p.m. at Murphy Hall.

The afternoon program includes the bronze “Tai Chi Figure I,” the I-beam sculpture at the engineering building, the foundry at the fine arts building and the student-designed memorial at the School of Architecture, 2 p.m., northeastern facade of Green Hall; the iconography of the Chi Omega Fountain and the story of Persephone, Demeter and Hades, 3 p.m., Chi Omega Fountain; the memorials on the northern slopes of Mount Oread, the descent into Marvin Grove and return to the plane of Mount Oread, 4 p.m., Campanile; and a summary of the day’s dialogues, 5 p.m., Arthur D. Weaver Court adjacent to Spooner Hall.

If the weather is bad, participants will gather in the portico of Lippincott Hall and then move indoors to discuss the ideas generated by the classical statues in the Wilcox Collection. At 1 p.m., participants will meet in the foyer of the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art. If the weather clears, the walking tour will resume at the appropriate time and place.