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...supper hour, by candlelight, two hours before the evening carillon-curfew, the Commons Scholar from Oxford will recite a parody of 'Hiawatha' by Lewis Carroll, and other esoteric nonsense-verse. The Dunster House Matron of Morsels will entertain as black-face comedienne, in her inimitable interpretations of 'mammy' songs. By popular request the Senior Tutor will cast aside academic dignity as a concession to the holiday season, and sing that famous and lachrymose lyric of the frigid Forties, entitled 'Father's a Drunkard and Mother's Dead, or Poor Little Bessie's Plea for Bread...
...campus. It covers 21 acres, has 1,100 rooms, and cost $7,000,000. The Chapel has not been completed but will be inside the next two years. Its cost is estimated at $2,000,000. The Chapel tower will be 210 feet high with a carillon audible for twelve miles. It will seat 1,700 people. The library is one of remarkable proportions. It houses a collection of 400,000 volumes. The Union building is the centre of all student life. It comprises a dining hall, a coffee shop, a drugstore, a postoffice, and different departments of extracurricular activity...
Work began yesterday preparatory to hoisting the new carillon into the Lowell House Tower when workmen started constructing a scaffolding and platform on the north side of the tower. The platform is being hoist to support either a steam or a gasoline engine. No date has as yet been set for the raising of the bells...
Saradjeff will consult with the architects as to the type of rigging that he needs for the final hanging of the bells, and when the proper supports have been installed in the tower, the bells, and when the proper supports of the carillon bells will be hung in the lower portion of the tower, a few will be placed in the upper part...
Playing of the carillon will be done by mechanical means instead of the electric control which is a common practice. A single carilloner will however be able to play all the bells in the tower, with the exception of the largest one, which will require a special operator. After examining the bells yesterday, Saradjeff stated that a bell similar to the largest one of the Lowell House group, is now in a church in Russia, and that this one is audible for 15 miles around under proper weather conditions...