Word: belle
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Custom, according to most writers on anthropologogy and sociology; is a survival, generally useless, perhaps absurd, and sometimes harmful. If writers had before their minds the seven o'clock bell which peals from the enpola of Harvard Hall, they could not have better formulated their definitions. For no apparent reason, the students in the Yard are daily inflicted with five minutes of sleep destroying agony. When inquiries are made concerning this nerve-shattering tocsin, the reply is invariable: that the bell has always been rung at seven, and probably will always be rung at seven, until its vibrations will have...
Customs are always interesting if they are neither absurd or harmful. No one has ever been known who was inspired into daily activity by the clanger of the seven o'clock bell. When the five minutes duration of sounding is multiplied by three hundred, this number of students living in the yard, it will be seen that sixty hours of sleep are lost per day by these unfortunate students...
...modelled on the plan of a typewriter and takes shorthand automatically. Five different adding machines have also been installed, and besides all the foregoing, there are a number of automatic mailing machines, addressographs, stenciling machines, addressographs, stenciling machines, cash registers, dictophones, typewriters, duplicators, minute-recording thermometers, "protectographs," automatic bell calls, and letter openers...
...originals of the Declaration of Independence or the Liberty Bell arouse a deep sense of patriotism in the minds of all loyal Americans. Similarly any historic article that has aided Harvard in here war endeavors creates a sense of loyalty among the members of the University. The historic clock that has successfully participated in so many campaigns in recruiting Harvard soldiers, and stimulated Liberty Loan subscriptions, is now making its final appearance on behalf of the Victory Loan. It will not fail...
...Chapel is indispensible as a rising bell for 8.10 classes...