Word: bells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides the unfortunate bellringer, who is forced to get up every morning early enough to ring the seven o'clock bell, there is another member of the University staff who appears to be over-worked. This is the gentleman who lifts the 1500-pound and 1000-pound weights for the Memorial Hall clock. One is inclined to regard this statement with skepticism, if not absolute disbelief, but it is well authenticated. Of course, this Herculean task has to be performed only once a week, and, it seems, can be accomplished in a single hour, but a hundred foot tons sounds...
...been ringing since long before your time and mine, and it probably will be ringing long after we are gone", was Mr. C. R. Apted's comment yesterday when a CRIMSON reporter broached the subject of the seven o'clock bell...
...look through your files for the past 35 years", went on Mr. Apted, who is Superintendent of the University Care-Takers, "every now and then you will find the CRIMSON starting an agitation about that seven o'clock bell--but no one else seems to mind it much, except possibly Mr. Conant...
Though he admitted that the bell had more or less outlived its usefulness, he seemed quite overwhelmed at the thought of doing away with it." Why that is Harvard tradition", he said, "as old as the College itself. I wouldn't know how to go about abolishing it--I certainly don't feel that I have the authority to do it myself, and don't believe anyone has except the President...
Wilson has been defeated. His bell of political fame has gradually ceased to ring. But its tolls shall never be forgotten, because they were human. They were the heart-beats of a man defeated by the people and the country for whom he has died. Defeated not as a Caesar, by his ambition; nor a Napoleon, by a flaw in his military strategy; but defeated by propaganda and politics, that underestimated his truth and genius, which lay in his "League of Nations" prayers and plans. "Not since the heralding angels sang the great birth song of Christ has one arisen...