Word: carillonned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clinic has 15 floors, a carillon tower and imposing bronze doors. On the third floor is the room of the Board of Governors. Covering all the walls of that room are framed Mayo diplomas, certificates, awards and knighthoods conferred by governments and learned societies. Outside in a glass showcase are their many academic robes. Their favorites are the red ones of the University of Manchester, England...
Nevertheless, the fact of the matter is, that the tower was not built to house the bells. Strolling toward the House Plan one day, Mr. Crane, donor of the carillon, remarked to his companion, Mr. Lowell, that this tower would be a logical location for his gift...
...CRIMSON was startled to learn last night. The grinding clangor will not be celebrating his visit to Cambridge, nor yet a favorable gold decision, but will be fulfilling a wish that the unwitting President made in October 1933 when he was gracefully extricating himself from the Lowell House carillon flasco...
...Toccata i A(No.11)," by Alessandro Scarlatti, 'Pastorale," by Zipoli, and "Le Carillon de Cithere,' by Couperin, will be among the selections played by G. Wallace Woodworth '24, instructor in Music and Assistant Organist, at an organ recital in the Fogg Art Museum, at 5 o'clock today...
...question, however, has many angles besides that of personal taste. Leagues for the defense of the rights of the individual will surely rise up to protest the regimentation of greater Boston's population into the ranks of the carillon audience. The Lowell House bells are not ordinary bells. It is the boast of the University that "under favorable conditions" they can be heard for a distance of fifteen miles. Among the million men, women, and children in that radius there are many sincere, conscientious objectors to bells in general, and to extra-size, extraloud ones in particular...