Word: chime
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...intended as a school for creating a love of low ribaldry or other coarse wit. Some time ago a number of juniors had the pleasure of seeing their nine win a game of ball through their skill at "rattling." Yesterday the sophomores copied those tactics. The freshmen tried to chime in, and now the spirit of interference seems to be in full sway...
...chime of ten bells, the largest weighing 3.000 pounds and costing over $5,000 will be placed in the tower of Trinity Church next February...
...does not throw of its bed clothes. Nay, further, we would be pleased to start a subscription paper for providing the ancient annunciator on Harvard Hall with hot "Toms and Jerrys," and other comforting liquids, during the continuance of the present cold snap. We trust that the college will chime in with our sentiments, since we are trying to ring in no scheme of personal advantage. Our columns are open to any communications on this topic bearing the magic signature "'89," though we reserve the option of proceeding to clapper stopper on any correspondents who give tongue too freely...
...Rollins Chapel at Dartmouth will not be dedicated until Commencement. A chime of bells will put up as soon as money can be raised for the purpose. What a pleasing contrast the future call to prayers of the Dartmouth student will be to the loud jingle which calls us to Appleton Chapel...
...reported that the chime of bells in the Yale chapel tower is similar to that of the parliament building in London and to the peal in the tower of the University of Cambridge...