Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston, it bore in its belfry a carillon of 43 bells, first in Pennsylvania, second largest in the U. S., presented by President H. B. Swoope of the Mercersburg Alumni Association, who had supplied British bell-makers an extraordinary collection of metal scraps to be melted into music-a widow's mite of old Judea, ring money from 1,000 B C Switzerland, pieces of shell from Flanders, clinkers from Old Ironsides, a bit from Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV, from the Columbia which beat Sir Thomas from Dewey's Manila flagship Olympia, from Nelson...
...Widow" Occupied Little Hall...
...present Manter Hall School was founded by W. W. Nolen, who graduated from the University in 1884 and at once embarked upon a life career of tutoring college students. Dubbed "the Widow" by some facetious pupil, Mr. Nolan became a pillar of support to countless members of many college generations. His talents and fame were such that his followers increased yearly in numbers and he was compelled to assemble a corps of assistants. He moved into Little Hall, and retained his quarters there until the end of his life...
Down come the attractive little white wooden houses with their neat green shutters Pegasus soars to a new stable, Tragic Muses drag from their familiar haunt, the last of the Arthurian Mohicans packs his kit--the Widow is moving to the Gold Coast...
...colonial Mansion, soon to house an ancient matron, ghosts will walk. For the Widow now has skeletons within her closet. Since that famous gentleman who built the excellent tradition of the Widow's has departed, the Lady of Learning has waned. Indeed, more than a new carapace is needed--body, soul are requsite. For even a tutoring school must have both...