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...convenience of attendants at the vesper service the college bell will be rung on Thursday afternoons both...
When President Cleveland enters Cambridge on Monday, a salute of 21 guns will be fired and the bells will be rung for half an hour. The same salute will be given when he returns to Boston...
...seriousness, - the undergraduates know perfectly well that there is constant danger of a terrible calamity by the burning of some of our tinderbox dormitories, and the fact that such a disaster is looked forward to by them was proved rather conclusively a few weeks ago, when an alarm, rung in from the box on Memorial Hall, emptied every building in the yard in less than two minutes, and sent half a thousand men to the point where the danger was indicated...
William J. Potter has the following to say about compulsory attendance on prayers at Harvard: "We were four years at Harvard, when there were prayers twice a day. We recall vividly the early morning bell, - it was rung very much earlier than now, - the hurried toilet, the rush of students through the yard, converging from all quarters, the leap of the final belated crowd up the chapel steps in eager, noisy rivalry to get within the door before the bell should stop, under penalty of receiving a black mark for tardiness, a worse offence than absence; we recall the monitors...
...several years; but it was finally found and restored to its former place in the basement of the college building, where it has hung ever since, a witness to the comings and goings, and the joys and sorrows of student life. Mr. John Cahill, the present janitor, has rung the bell four times a day for the last 30 years, and the old man deeply regrets this accident to his pet. On the front of the bell is the following inscription in raised letters: "Guten I, Gotheborg. At Arwid Book. Anno 1742." It has been ascertained that Guten...