Word: belle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...panel's organizers said that two upcoming events at the Law School had prompted the discussion. A suit alleging that the Law School's hiring policies are discriminatory goes before the state's Supreme Judicial Court next Tuesday, and Professor of Law Derrick Bell has said he will announce his decision next week on whether to leave the school permanently...
...Bell took a leave of absence from the Law School more than a year ago to protest the school's lack of any tenured minority and women professors...
...follow in Turk's footsteps, first," a bit of bell history." The stories surrounding the Lowell bells are a mish-mash of fact and fiction, but every Sunday, visitors to the bell tower will hear a particular version which has been preserved in the archives of the Lowell House Bell-Ringers' Society...
However, Harvard did not realize this at the time, and there was an uproar when the Russian tuner was discovered filing the bells down. No longer permitted to do this, Sergiev decided that one of the bells, the "bell of hope, felicity and joy" (which was a member of the original set) was too close in pitch to another bell in the set, the "bell of famine pestilence and despair...
Sergiev suggested that the "bell of hope, felicity and joy " should be "sent back across the waters." He meant to send it to Russia to be tuned; Harvard sent it across the Charles River, where is now hangs at the Business School...