Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SHAMMA Bell, Calif...
Weary students still recuperating from the rigors of the Princeton weekend waited in vain yesterday for the welcome tolling of the Memorial Church bell which usually marks the end of classes...
...bell cable had parted, but Cecil A. Roberts, Superintendent of the Department of Buildings and Grounds, reported that this last vestige of Official Harvard Time (now that the Memorial Hall clock is gone) will resume operations today...
Even getting telephone calls at Radcliffe, as most Harvard men know, is not an entirely personal matter. The Cliffite receives calls through the dorm bell system, an elaborate array of buzzers, wires, and little colored lights, which operate daily from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. and slightly later on Sundays and holidays. After hours, the bell desk turns into a pumpkin, and the Radcliffe Cinderella, unless she has a private phone, is virtually cut off from the outside world...
...Taking bell desk duty is a part of the Radcliffe work program, which allegedly keeps down the price of room and board. Instead of the Harvard situation, where scholarship boys work to pay their own way through school, all the Radcliffe girls work to lower their common rates. Besides bell duty, the Cliffite can also don white apron and hair net two or three times a week to "wait on" in the dining hall...