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...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...
LEAVITT AND PEIRCE.FOUND.- A brown overcoat in Sever Hall. Apply to Jones, the bell-ringer...
...reject co-education. They would soon find that it was the boys who were kept home to wash the dishes, and the girls who came to college to learn how to box, make punch, and lie to the Dean. The college, of course, has a college yell, a bell ringer, and a young lady in the Dean's office. What college hasn't? And the prayers are voluntary. So, after all, Boston University is well worth attention, thinks the visitor, as he accompanies to her home his fair guide...
Jones, the janitor and bell-ringer, is in his twenty-fifth year of service with the college...