Word: sextons
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...Church, the notes which close several thousand notebooks simultaneously originate from the 5000-pound giant in the new tower. This bell, more than twice as big as those in St. Paul's or Memorial Hall, is one of the few in Cambridge still rung by hand. Harold R. Allen, sexton of the Church, rushes to the cellar every hour from nine to four o'clock and, when the electric telechron registers 15 seconds before the hour, he pulls hard on the slim bell rope which hangs through a hole in the ceiling. He has been going through this procedure...
...Sexton's Allen's muscles, the complicated cogwheel-and-weight contraptions in Memorial Hall and St. Paul's, an occasional guest zvon player, and the many other church sextons who save their art for Sunday mornings, all combine to make Cambridge a boom town, campanologically speaking...
...left the organ and went down to the undercroft where Sexton John Frank, 58, was working. He asked Frank for a hammer, a heavy one. Then he dropped some coins on the floor. He started to pick them up, pretended a 50? piece was missing...
Thomas P. Hazard, Jr., Francis Hendricks, Frederick D. Houghteling, Morton D. Hull, John D. Ingram, John L. Kice, Richard W. Kimball, Daniel H. Le Van, Jr., George L. Seldon, John J. Sexton, John H. Slayton, Don S. Sturgill, Theodore H. Turner, Bayard Wharton, Jr., and Theodore F. Wolff...
...plan first produced the central quadrangle, built in Gothic style, with its maze of passageways and courtyards and its myriad of minute designs in stone, over which reigns the Harkness Memorial Tower. Here we find a peculiar liberal trend, for the Tower sexton mounts thrice daily to sound the chimes, not at the hours ordinarily prescribed for the sounding of chimes, but at noon, 6, and 10 o'clock. Those accustomed to the bedlam let loose over Cambridge every quarter hour, and sometimes at 20 minutes to the hour, might note this with approval...