Word: bells
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meet some young ladies who were willing to brave the risk of being found out, and take a slide on the hills. We have been coasting many times, but nothing equals coasting with Wellesley girls on a moonlight night. We wish there was space to describe the "heathen" bell that calls the students from bed at six o'clock in the morning and summons them to chapel,-to describe the chapel itself,-the Browning room and the library. Late in the evening we reluctantly left the college...
...earth, especially England, and still more especially the individual objects of the writer's personal dislike, belong to the Devil without any kind of doubt. He is also found in other poems of this age. He appears in Byron's "Vision of Judgment," he carries off Shelley's "Peter Bell," and makes himself other-wise useful. But he shows little originality in his deviltry...
...once proceed to sing part of Handel's "Messiah." Soon after ten o'clock, a short interval is allowed for supper, during which the little candles on the vast Christmas tree are lighted; and then, the gas being turned down, the choir commence singing Christmas carols, until the great bell in the tower booms out the hour of twelve, when Pergolesi's "Gloria in Excelsis" is sung, and the Vice-President bids you a Merry Christmas. The whole scene is striking and unique, and well worthy of its academic surroundings. Queen's College, even more than Magdalen, confers benefit...
...electrical paper reports a new device for aiding base ball umpires in their arduous duties, An underground wire forms a circuit with all the bases. When the base runner touches the plate, an electric bell rings in a small tower near the umpire's position. It is to be hoped that this device will be fully tested this season, and, if found useful, adopted all over the country. It will be a grand thing if, in course of time, an umpire can have all his duties performed by electricity; and if the inventor of this noble plan could only find...
...varying from two pence, for absence from prayers, to two pounds ten shillings, for absence from town for a month. If a man was absent from recitation, it cost him 1s. 6d.; if he got drunk, the penalty was no greater. Going to meeting before the ringing of the bell was an offence, and the over-prompt student was fined 6d. The penalty for playing cards was 5s. for graduates, 2s. 6d. for undergraduates. And so on down the list...