Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charnel-house of Surrealism, one stands bare-headed and resigned. Mufiled drums beat, and men murmur, "Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?" But for this newest venture of Harkness heraldry, let Lowell bells ring out and the bird-calls sound forth loud and clear. It is a romantic story, this calling of Harvard men to their colors. One day in January, masters and tutors, in meeting assembled, folded their hands and awaited the moment when the spirit should move them. Then to each there came that inner voice, whispering to men of Dunster, "blue and gold," murmuring...
When he heard what his party was doing across the Capitol, House Leader Rainey, old Amherst fisticuffer, threw a new proposal into the ring. Observing that the Federal Government had never had much luck getting back money loaned to States he advised: "If the Federal Government is going to distribute relief, then it had better handle such relief itself...
...view of the fact that Joel Williams, member of a book ring which stole over 2500 volumes from the College Library, has been convicted and sentenced, officials of the library have determined to put in each of the recovered books the following plate: "This book was stolen from the Harvard College Library. It was later recovered. The thief was sentenced to two years at hard labor...
...remember our tale of the Russian bells in Lowell House at Harvard: how the Russian bellringer who was brought over to ring them fell into a mood, took to drinking ink, and had to be sent home, so that the bells have never been rung. Nobody so far has denied that the Russian bellman drank ink, but several people up there have written us indignantly that the bells do ring. It comes out that every Monday evening at six-thirty Lowell House holds High Table, which is a secret--and we should imagine, sad--sort of dinner, attended only...
...soon as all the bells get going, led by old No. 15, windows are flung open in Leverett, Winthrop, Adams, and Claverly* Houses, and even in Lowell House itself. Students whistle and shriek, alarm clocks ring; and everybody wails "Rinehart!"--the old Harvard wail. The bedlam lasts for about ten minutes, after which the High Tablers take a stiff drink of ink and go back to work. --New Yorker...