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...does not expect, of course, to find Professor Palmer shouting "Reinhardt" about the Yard in the evenings; that is because this particular tradition is not especially worth while perpetuating. Nor is Mr. Conant the bell-ringer likely to awake some winter morning to find the clapper of his bell frozen to the sides by President Lowell, for obviously, this also is one of those jovial performances which, genuinely humorous the first time, rapidly becomes mere routine, without any better excuse for itself than an empty and eventually boresome precedent. There is, never theless, a rich and colorful store of Harvard...
These and other little-known facts about the bell which tolls off the hours for thousands within ear-shot of Harvard square were revealed to a CRIMSON reporter recently by Mr. Arthur Conant who for 13 years has been the bell-ringer at the University...
...Conant's predecessor, old Jones the Bell-ringer, as he was called, who bore the brunt of the attacks in the old days. For 44 years he protected the bell and its clapper from an infinite variety of plots by undergraduates seeking a few extra hours of sleep in the morning. Mr. Conant described a few of the methods used, "Besides stealing the clapper, the boys used to tie up the bell with a rope. And in the wintertime they turned it upside down, filled it with water, and let it freeze." In order to avoid the padlocks, the usual...
...There is one thing I wish the CRIMSON would advocate," he concluded. "That is an 8 o'clock bell instead of a 7. In these modern times, 7 o'clock is a little too early for the boys to get up, and entirely too early for the bell-ringer...
...statement of Mr. Conant, the University bell ringer clears up several controversial matters in one swoop. There has always been a question as to just how many times the bell rings every hour; it now appears that this number is either forty-four or forty-six--depending, presumably on the physical condition of Mr. Conant. On Sundays, however, he spreads himself to the extent of 120 strokes; no doubt it requires at least that many to remind most students of the existence of the Chapel...