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...shielded from lots of grimness I would later find. And there were moments of atmospheric appreciation at other times while I was an undergraduate: Lowell House's small courtyard, accessorized with snow and red mittens, is perhaps my favorite visual image, along with the sight of the blue bell tower from the river (not a wholly ocular confrontation, I confess--this sight was always accompanied by some narration like "Hey, I know somebody who lives there...
...personal nightmare was knowing that if the bomb didn't go off or hangfired, I, as head of the test, would have to go to the tower first and seek to find out what had gone wrong," Bainbridge wrote 30 years later in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists...
...Labor Policy Association, a corporate lobby group in Washington, says, "College students breezing in and telling people they are better off joining a union--and then breezing back to school again--that's not likely to be very effective." The handpicked Union Summer activists, however, are far from ivory-tower stereotypes. Among the 30 Los Angeles recruits, for instance, only one is an Ivy Leaguer: Brown University's Marisela Ramos, the brainy daughter of an illiterate East Los Angeles seamstress. Three of the students have worked part time in supermarkets since high school, and some, like Marcio Castro, manager...
...when Lowell House was being built, plans called for the tower to feature four clocks. But a faculty member, travelling in the Soviet Union, discovered a set of 400-year-old bells from St. Danilov's monastery that Stalin planned to melt for ammunition. The man wired Harvard to stop construction immediately, and arranged to have the bells shipped...
Only 23 of the original 44 bells were saved. 22 now sit in Lowell's tower, where they were arranged by a Russian monk. The largest weighs 12.5 tons, and measures nine feet in diameter. The second largest, and the only bell outside Lowell, can be found atop the Business School's Baker Library...