Word: towers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since their installation in 1931, the bells have intermittently groaned and bonged their way to notoriety. Afternoon and evening concerts, which were frequent in the '30's, usually brought Lowell residents into the courtyard, armed with noisemakers and determined to drown out the uproar in the tower. Their efforts were unsuccessful. On a clear day, the bells could be heard for fifteen miles, and if conditions were exceptionally favorable, the radius of total destruction was reputed to be forty-two. House Master Julian Coolidge, who hardly shared President Lowell's enthusiasm for the bells, once complained that when rung they...
Lowell, who was a fanatic for bells, nearly dropped his copy of De Tintinnabulis when Charles Crane offered to supply Harvard with one genuine set of Russian church bells. The two men measured Lowell House tower, and discovered that there would be just enough room for twenty-seven tone worth, cast in eighteen different sizes and shapes. On October 10, 1930 the bells arrived in Cambridge. The work of Mr. Crane, who had gone to some little trouble importing them from Leningrad, seemed near completion...
...difficulties involved in getting the bells into the tower proved so great, however, that many wondered whether Crane's effort had been worthwhile. A group of men spent four hours moving the largest one, a fourteen ton affair, from its truck, and it nearly crashed to the ground anyway. All the bells were stored in a shack near Gore Hall while scaffolding was built along the sides of the tower. One winter alone was consumed in hoisting the carillon to its final perch...
...best moments, Operation Ivy gave the viewer a fascinating look into the curious world of atom experimentation. It showed the flat, coral islands of Eniwetok, the test tower rising above the surrounding sea. and, in views of vast test devices, evidence of the enormous toil and expense necessary to prepare for the explosion. The camera (from 50 miles off) showed the mushroom cloud rising through menacing black skies like a great, poisonous-looking gob of whipped cream...
Perkins has many inherited traditions to help him. Mr. Coolidge, the first House master, imported a democratic version of the Oxford High table for the House. High Table now meets every other Monday night; the tower is lighted at six-thirty, ten seniors (invited in rotation) dine formally with the master, tutor, and guests on a raised dais at one end of the hall. Perkins puts his own touch to this institution as well as adding a weekly session of cucumber sandwiches presided over by Mrs. Perkins. There is a standing invitation for all House members...