Word: bells
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...yourself on the three-hour "Follow the Footsteps of Old Beijingers" tour. An English-speaking guide walks the group up the 700-year-old Bell Tower and around the Drum Tower before heading to Guanghua Temple and over the Silver Ingot Bridge, spanning two of the area's lakes. Afterward, as well as visiting a local house, you'll be taken to a tea ceremony at Prince Gong's mansion...
...would have to be considered tougher just because of what they've had to grow up with and endure. That's baggage Yanks fans don't have. It's a rivalry of epic proportions in which one side hasn't really had the chance to answer the bell...
...They pushed me up on the [bell-ringing platform], and I was terrible,” Mary J. Hester ’08 said of her first ringing experience. “But they were really nice, and were like, ‘You should come back next week.’… I’m definitely coming back every week...
...following this period of hostility, some students began to accept and embrace the bells, and eventually formed the Lowell House Society of Russian Bell Ringers during the 1950s to ensure that they would be rung on an active basis, a tradition that is still practiced to this...
...though the bell ringers may lack the talent of the Russian monks who visited Lowell in December 2003, that’s okay; it’s loud banging, not professional skill that is prized. The regulars actively encourage the first-time visitors to go up to the platform and belt out a few tones on the 13 functioning bells...