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...wanted to be so sad for her,” Bell says, “but had to pretend like it was not a big deal...
From the sideline, from the stands—Bell looks back on it all with bittersweet fondness...
...many years, the pealing of the bell in the Memorial Church tower was the lone, solemn sound signifying completion of the rites of Harvard’s Commencement exercises. Strangely enough, I miss those days...
Today, once the Middlesex County sheriff declares the Commencement exercises adjourned, bells across campus—from the Harvard Divinity School bell in Andover Hall, to the Lowell House bells of the St. Danilov Monastery, to the bell of the Harvard Business School—will ring along with it. And in a 17-year-old tradition, various neighboring churches and schools throughout Cambridge will ring their own bells for approximately 15 minutes in celebration of our collective achievements. The size and scope of the event promises to be dramatic—a jarring punctuation to four surreal years...
...first time I listened to the bell of Memorial Church was on the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001. There was an ad hoc service in the very same place graduation is held annually; (newly minted) University President Lawrence H. Summers gave an address. Ten thousand from across Harvard huddled together—in part just to be near each other, despite so many of us being strangers. Miles from home, having arrived just days before, we stared at each other confusedly. We marked the occasion, as best we could, without ever really grasping its meaning...