Word: bells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter of tradition, the conscientious query is annually posed by the Crimson: "For what occult reason are the unfortunate inhabitants of the Yard forcibly reminded each morning, by the frenzied exultation of the bell on Harvard Hall, that the cold grey hour of seven is at hand?" As a matter of tradition too, the answer has been forthcoming "Nobody knows, and nobody seems to care--" except the long suffering Seniors who are fated to sleep, or rather to try to sleep, in the immediate vicinity of the clamor...
...other times Gorky cannot reconcile this god-like side with his coarse peasant brutality or his willingness to lower himself to the level of other men. "Sometimes he seems conceited and intolerant like a Volga preacher, and this is terrible in a man who is the sounding bell of the world." If Tolstoy had let him, Gorky would have worshipped him; as it was he feared, despised, worshipped all at once, but fundamentally he was ever somewhat overawed by the realization that Tolstoy was a genius and a superman. "I saw him once as perhaps no one has ever seen...
Fighting to the last bell, the undefeated University hockey team went down to a 1-0 defeat last night at the hands of the St. Patrick's seven of Ottawa. A rebound from the stick of Holmes, Crimson goaltend, was responsible for the only break in an otherwise flawless record...
...University captain opened the scoring just six seconds after the bell with a neat snap from scrimmage. Less than two minutes later a pass out by Emmons from the corner gave him an opportunity to drive a second shot past Root, the Yale goal guard. During the twelve-minute scoreless scramble which followed, Yale never had a chance to shoot from nearer than mid-ice, while only the herculean work of the diminutive Captain Carson kept the Blue goal inviolate...
...announced at the University. Edward S. Emery '87 becomes Assistant Comptroller; Robert Rowser '13 becomes Instructor in Transportation at the Business School; John J. Sexton '18 is appointed Instructor in French; Barnett F. Dodge is to be Lecturer on Chemistry, and Herbert H. Palmer G. '11, and Winthrop P. Bell G. '09, are to be Assistants in Physics and Philosophy respectively...