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...also says that the bell performs an important secular function...
...some students use the bell as their personal alarm clock. Alison D. Nugent ’09 says she wakes up with the 8:40 a.m. bells and tries to shower and be back in her room by the next set of bells at 9 a.m. During reading period, when the bells do not ring, she says she almost missed her class because she is so used to leaving her room with the 1 p.m. bells in order to arrive at Sever Hall perfectly on time five minutes later...
...bells don’t bother Sean P. Bala ’09, a Thayer resident, who points out of his window to the bell tower...
Until 1933, Harvard’s bell not only marked the time for the changing of classes every hour, but was also used as a rising bell that woke students at 6 a.m. in the winter and at 7 a.m. in the summer...
From the 1640s until 1886, church bells also rang twice daily in Appleton Chapel to mark the University’s mandatory services. In the morning, the bell rang from 7:40 a.m. to 7:45 a.m. to give everyone time to arrive at the service, which began promptly...