Word: bell
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...History tells us that Cyrus, when a young man, was awakened every morning by sweet strains of music, in order that he might begin the day in harmony with everything. Perhaps the Faculty think that it answers the purpose equally well to wake us up with a harsh bell, and give us the music half an hour afterwards; but the delay is fatal. By the time the music comes we are not in a fitting frame of mind to appreciate...
...morning, for instance, instead of enjoying a quiet sleep, and getting up at a reasonable hour, we are roused by the relentless Jones with his prayer-bell. There is no instrument of torture yet devised by man which can cause more misery than a loud bell rung early in the morning. It is especially disagreeable when one has been up late the night before at a political or temperance meeting. The pretext on which it is rung, too, is a frivolous one. If a man insists on going to prayers, he can surely be awakened without rousing all the victims...
Among other odds and ends we have thirteen "Suggestions," of which eight are on the marking system, three on changing the College bell for one of richer tone, and the other two on drainage...
...append the results of the different races. Hundred-yards, J. D. Cheever, 10 3/4 sec.; mile-walk, L. Webster, 8 min. 46 sec.; running broad-jump, R. M. Campbell, 20 ft. 11 in.; half-mile run, F. G. Russell, 2 min. 33 sec.; three-legged race, Wilcox and Camp-bell, 16 1/4 sec.; quarter-mile run, E. D. Appleton, 58 sec.; running high-jump, F. G. Russell, 5 ft.; three-mile walk, L. Webster, 36 min.; 100-yard hurdle-race, F. D. Wilcox, 18 sec.; standing long-jump, R. M. Nelson, 9 ft. 5 in.; mile-run, R. M. Nelson...
...hundred yards' dash; 4. running broad jump; 5. one mile run; 6. hurdle race (120 yards); 7. one fourth mile run; 8. potato race; 9. three-legged race; 10. bicycle race (three miles). Contestants are reminded that if they do not appear within five minutes after the bell is rung, they will positively be excluded...