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...been going through this procedure for three years and feels strongly that there is such a thing as overdoing tradition. On the other hand, his bell is certainly the most accurate by which to set your watch. The bell itself is housed in an immaculate white alcove under the spire, a strong contrast to the pigeon-besmirched campaniles of Memorial Hall and St. Paul's Cast in Loughborough, England in 1926 and presented to the University by an anonymous donor, it is inscribed "In Memory Of Voices That Are Hushed...

Author: By A.r.g. Solmseen, | Title: It Tolls for Thee | 11/3/1948 | See Source »

...band returned to base camp in August with six first ascents behind6ANDREW GRISCOM '49 scales Pidgeon Spire in the Bugaboo Mountains of British Columbia...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Storms, Cold, Hunger Faced Students Charting Rockies | 10/27/1948 | See Source »

Lowell House: George C. Lodge '50, R. David Young, Jr. '50, David C. Poskanzer '50, Herbert J. Spire '50, Robert B. Clark '48, Edward P. Healy '47, Donald M. Landis '50, Walde H. Heinrichs, Jr. '47, Francois J. Malle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houses Name 50 to Primary Council Ballot | 4/14/1948 | See Source »

...amoebae are still intact and outwardly unchanged, but something bigger than themselves has taken charge of their lives. When all the volunteers have arrived, the cell mass pokes up in a blunt spire, then falls on its side and forms a sausage-like "slug." As soon as the slug is formed, it acts like a multicelled animal, crawls with comparative rapidity and good coordination. It even has senses of a sort, for it is attracted by light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cellular Cooperation | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

Spared: Paris, Rome. Some 4,000 British churches were hit. Canterbury suffered glancing blows: the adjoining priory was badly smashed; Exeter Cathedral took a heavy pounding. At Coventry, scene of Germany's first spiteful "Baedeker raid," the cathedral spire stood alone-a stone tree in a stone desert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Europe's Loss | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

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