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Today, once the Middlesex County sheriff declares the Commencement exercises adjourned, bells across campus—from the Harvard Divinity School bell in Andover Hall, to the Lowell House bells of the St. Danilov Monastery, to the bell of the Harvard Business School—will ring along with it. And in a 17-year-old tradition, various neighboring churches and schools throughout Cambridge will ring their own bells for approximately 15 minutes in celebration of our collective achievements. The size and scope of the event promises to be dramatic—a jarring punctuation to four surreal years...
...rites—to convince ourselves that there exists some continuity between our world and the world that came before. But when the world as we know it shrinks away and leaves in its place a vast fog of uncertainty and instability, our traditions fail us. The bells ring hollow...
After Ms. Music’s final college exam, Mr. Murray presented her with his grandmother’s engagement ring at the Bombay Club, the site of their first official date together. He had already received her parents’ approval, after e-mailing them in Spanish (a language he had just started learning at the start of the semester). When she accepted, he showed her the e-mail. “It was very sweet to see my mother’s words,” Ms. Music says. “Amara was also super happy because...
...months later—on Oct. 10—they became engaged to be married. While watching television, Ms. Heller turned to reach for the remote. When she turned back, Mr. Alfono presented her with a ring he had found as a child and kept because it reminded him of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings books...
Although the setting for the proposal was dramatic—thunder and lightning, rare for the area, raged above the couple as they stood on Weeks Footbridge—the event itself was not. “We had talked about it and [Rachel] knew I was buying the ring,” Mr. Suskewicz says...