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Decision of the Harvard Corporation to resume Sunday concerts on the Lowell House tower bells will be greeted with mixed feelings in various quarters. There are, of course, persons who like nothing better of a Sunday afternoon than the healthy clamor of a nice, big Russian carillon. There are others who can take their carillons or leave them, and there is a third group to whom the thing is exquisite torture...
...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...
...Brer Rabbit. First substantial gift came from Col. Sam Tate, president of Georgia Marble Co., who lives in a huge pink marble mansion in Tate, 60 miles north of Atlanta, and from whose quarries was cut the stone that built the Federal Reserve Bank Building in Cleveland, the Bok Carillon Tower at Mountain Lake, Fla., the Harding Memorial at Marion. He promised $30,000 worth of Georgia Pink. A nationwide competition will decide how Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, Brer B'ar, Tar-Baby, Uncle Remus and the Little Boy will appear in Sam Tate's marble...
Last March a Harvard undergraduate who signed himself "R. P. L., Secretary of the Lowell House Committee" sat down and wrote a letter to President Roosevelt. He wanted to know if the President would allow him to name the bells in Lowell House tower the "Roosevelt Carillon." The President dictated a letter of acceptance to the house master of Lowell House, his old friend and former teacher Dr. Julian Lowell Coolidge, to which Professor Coolidge replied: "Dear Franklin: "Your nice letter of March twentieth perturbed me greatly, the one clear point being that I must write you a letter...
...famed old English Setter Blue Dan of Happy Valley for best gun dog. The ribs and muscles of snow-white Greyhound Boveway Beau Brummel, best hound, looked like delicately chiseled marble. His kinky jet hair and the crimson ribbon on his topknot made French Poodle Whippendell Poli of Carillon, best non-sporting dog, look like a Harlem belle. The sixth dog was a magnificent black & tan Airedale, Warland Protector of Shelterock, best terrier, just arrived in the U. S. after a long string of victories in England. A good Airedale pup can be bought for $35. Ringside gossip said that...