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...close of the first event, in accordance with a note printed on the programmes, a gong was sounded, and everyone sat still while the building, and the audience were photographed. Storrow, '87, had his camera in the south west end of the gallery, and Mr. Tupper, Pach's operator, had his in the north west corner. The audience hardly realized that an effort was being made to photograph them, and did not sit very still, so the worth of the result is rather doubtful. Mr. Tupper took two and Mr. Storrow one picture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gymnasium Sports. | 3/30/1885 | See Source »

...dining hall in Memorial was photographed yesterday during the lunch hour. Those who entered after one o'clock, found at their places polite requests from Mr. A. Z. Bowen to be as " quiet as possible " at the ringing of the gong. When the gong rang, in spite of the very large number of men in the hall, it became so very quiet that one could have heard a pin drop. Two pictures were taken at the first gong, one being taken by Mr. A. S. Johnson, '85, president of the Harvard Society of Amateur Photographers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Camera in the Dining Hall. | 2/20/1885 | See Source »

...comparatively musical gong has been substituted for the prayer bell at Memorial Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 9/29/1884 | See Source »

...register a tremendous jerk, thus calling down upon himself the wrath of the conductor, the ridicule of his fellow passengers and the scorn of the young lady in question. No, no! give us cold cars, slow horses, inattentive conductors and little straw, but in heaven's name remove the gong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/20/1882 | See Source »

Whangdoodle and gong in harmonious song...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 3/27/1874 | See Source »

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