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...days that Harvard’s non-denominational church holds memorial services, Richard D. Campbell, The Memorial Church’s sexton, climbs up narrow and steep staircases, ascends a thin metal ladder, and smashes a half-ton clapper into Harvard’s two-ton bell, high up in the church tower. Down below, three dorms full of freshman students cover their ears and try to fall back asleep...
Twice in the bell’s history, the half-ton clapper came flying out from the bell while swinging and landed on the church roof. Approximately three years ago, a cable was connected to the clapper to secure it in place. Just in case this fails, there is an extra clapper waiting in the platform beneath the bell and rigging blocks underneath the bell to pull it up into place...
...COMPLETE MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS 16-TON MEGASET...
...tickets outside, and the bearded woman might be in charge of helping you find your seat,” Brown writes. “Presidential campaigns in Chile do not have as many resources as campaigns in the U.S. This means that everyone who is involved has a ton of work to do—multitasking...
...call.“I don’t know,” said Matthew R. Greenfield ’08, who is a member of the the John S. Haddock ’07-Annie R. Riley ’07 campaign. “There are a ton of factors at play. The changing dynamics not just during the campaign but during the election itself are going to make the outcome interesting.”As of 11 p.m. last night, more than 3,300 students had voted, according to the UC’s website.When the campaign...