Word: carillonned
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...bells are a true Russian Zvon, or carillon, and once were the pride and joy of the Dansilovsky, or Danailov Monastery, in Moscow, and they were given to the University by Charles R. Crane, former United States Minister to China...
...three years ago Nancy found in her mail a letter suggesting that Belle Isle should have a carillon for her sunrise services. Nancy thought it was a nice idea, printed the letter. Next day came an anonymous donation of $1 toward the bells. Thereupon Nancy Brown began to reflect: a carillon must have at least 23 bells and a tower in which to mount them would cost anywhere from...
Last week on Belle Isle, in a clearing near the centre of the island, overlooking a lagoon, Nancy turned the first shovelful of ground for the Nancy Brown Peace Carillon. She broke the sod with a beribboned spade supplied by Publisher Scripps of the News. The ceremony was unheralded : only the tower's architect and trustees, a few city officials, the News editor, Nancy Brown's grandniece and grandnephew were on hand...
Where once they carried water into rough wooden dormitories, they gaped at 100 modern brick buildings, an art museum, a 50,000-volume library (named for Alumnus Oliver Wendell Holmes), a new infirmary, an archeological museum, a carillon tower, a forest sanctuary. "Where," grumped Edgar B. Sherrill, '98, "is the Deanery?" "There it is, sir," replied great-nephew Arthur Miles Sherrill Jr., 13, pointing to an imposing new brick-and-concrete commons...
...plays in his underwear. Says he : "I really think we've got a great mission here, but we have to work hard. The carillon is a folk instrument. It sings with the people...