Word: ringer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...general opinion among Seniors who have the privilege of rooming in Hollis or Stoughton that the obsolete custom of having prolonged bell-ringing at seven A. M. is a nuisance, and that as such it should be discontinued. It is unkind to oblige an octogenarian bell-ringer to be disturbed unnecessarily early every morning, and it is certainly unreasonable to oblige him in turn to disturb all the students of those two dormitories by a noise which has no object and no excuse. Most men in College do the bulk of their work not in the morning early...
...Memorial Society presented yesterday to Mr. Jones, the venerable College bell-ringer, a miniature of the old bell which hung in the belfry of Harvard Hall from 1836 to 1900. The miniature was cast from a fragment of the old bell, which was broken up last summer, and from which the tablets recently placed on the old Yard dormitories were made. The bell stands about eight inches high, and bears on one side the medallion of the Memorial Society and on the other the inscription...
...goes to college merely for the sake of playing on athletic teams, better known to college men as a "ringer," is to all intents and purposes a professional, because he is making athletics his one aim in life, and he should therefore be debarred. Thus all eligibility rules point toward the same end. But if a student in a graduate school stands in the athletic world on an equal footing with other athletes; if by playing him our university teams are not taking an unfair advantage over their opponents, the men in graduate departments should be eligible to play...