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...days that Harvard’s non-denominational church holds memorial services, Richard D. Campbell, The Memorial Church’s sexton, climbs up narrow and steep staircases, ascends a thin metal ladder, and smashes a half-ton clapper into Harvard’s two-ton bell, high up in the church tower. Down below, three dorms full of freshman students cover their ears and try to fall back asleep...
...University holidays and on memorial days, the church’s bell is still hand-rung by Campbell, who has become an expert over the past 10 years at climbing through the church’s catwalk on narrow beams to reach steep metal staircases and cluttered platforms with large windows. On the highest platform, he climbs a thin metal ladder that finally brings him up to a door that opens onto to a small space high above the Yard...
...should not offer an accounting course for the same reason that it should not let its students major in musical or theatrical performance. The role of a college is to expose students to a breadth of fields and experiences, not to let them put themselves on a narrow-gauge track toward a specific career...
...hysteria subsided, Young said he thought the hearing went pretty well. Chauncey Eskridge walked in from a lawyers' conference with Judge Bailey Brown and said the judge would permit SCLC to lead Monday's march under the restrictions King and Lawson desired: a prescribed route, no weapons and narrow ranks to give the marshals wide space on the flanks to keep the spectators away. This relief started a fresh buzz of determination for weekend preparations. They should all get ready for dinner at the home of Reverend Billy Kyles, a well-known Memphis minister, King said, and Officer Richmond...
...most powerful and influential alumni. “Harvard is the prism through which 02138 will view the world,” Kim said. According to the promotional materials for 02138, over half of the university’s alumni are millionaires—a narrow but lucrative market for advertisers. They will also charge subscribers $36 per year. Kim said the new magazine will be an interesting approach to alumni news. “We will deliver compelling profiles, cover important stories, and even break some news,” Kim wrote. “All, we hope with...