Word: clapper
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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...
...bell was cast in Sweden in 1742, and from the peculiar arrangement of its clapper was evidently designed for a ship bell. It is thought to have been put up soon after the college was built, and has probably been hanging in the basement of the building for nearly 100 years. About the year 1854 some of the students, as a joke on the faculty, took the bell down and sent it to the students of the South Carolina College at Columbia, who forwarded it to the Oglethorpe University in Georgia, whence it was shipped to Macon and was there...
...minor offence committed by the students a few nights ago was the removal of the clapper of the college bell, a feat that is performed here annually. The students paid dearly for this piece of folly, for a proctor, coming upon them quietly, removed the scaling ladder, and kept them up in the cold until he thought they had a sufficient time for repentance, and then let them down, taking their names as they descended...
...steal the clapper from the aged bell...
...clapper! that hast rung for many years...