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Perhaps the best-known of these traditions is the annual bell-clapper escapade. Every fall as early as possible the freshman class is allowed to steal the clapper of the hell in Nassau Hall's tower in order to prevent it from tolling the hours of classes. If there is no bell, then there are no classes...
...background, Rovere and Schlesinger have considerably more to say. 175 of the 252 pages of the book proper (there are 70 pages of appended documents) are devoted to tracing Douglas MacArthur's career form his birthplace in a military camp in Arkansas to his latest residence in a tower suite at the Waldorf Astoria. The technique of the narrative is to set the reader up with several pages of straight reporting, then siam him with a few paragraphs of interpretation. The tone is not so unfriendly to MacArthur as some of his other critical have been, but the authors have...
After his visit to the airport, where his tall feathers were realigned. Thresky took off and headed west. Control tower officials said be asked for a fight plan to Ipewich. So far, no further reports have come...
Inside the Gothic doorways to Yale's Sterling Memorial Library, the great procession formed, bright with the hoods of scholars and notables from all over the world. As the bells of Harkness Tower pealed Onward,, Christian Soldiers, the column moved slowly across the campus to Woolsey Hall. There, the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church and fellow of the Yale Corporation, called the assembly to prayer. Yale's 250th anniversary celebration had begun...
Mecca of study is the Backer Library, whose lone tower sticking up out of the wilderness symbolizes the School. In the lower floor of these storehouses of wise words is a reading room full of monstrous murals-monstrous both in size and content...