This post was suggested by this morning's New York Times story on the missing cornerstone of St. Patrick's Cathedral and by the recent design for an official T-shirt celebrating Harvard's 375th anniversary—
In Harvard's case, the missing piece beneath the cathedral-like spire* is the VERITAS on the college shield.
Possible sources for a shield image representing VERITAS—
1. "Patrick Blackburn" in this journal, which might be combined with
2. Reflections on Kurt Gödel ** by Hao Wang, Chapter 9, "To Fit All the Parts Together"—
"The metaphor of fitting parts together readily suggests
the concrete image of solving a picture puzzle…." (p. 243)
Or the image of a Wang tiles puzzle.
A graphic image, colorful but garish, that summarizes these two sources—
Shield with matching Wang tiles
* The Lowell House bell tower
** MIT Press, first published in 1987