Word: chimeses
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The first problem that confronts us at Harvard is, of course, the question of who should be admitted to residence. Education cannot make scholars out of hoboes or active leaders out of pedants. At present a man can come here by accumulating fifteen points on "old-plan" examinations that have...
Widow. The Endowment's only woman trustee is Mrs. Nanaline Holt Inman Duke. The Holts are a First Family of Macon, Ga. Her first husband, Walter Inman, was of Atlanta's aristocracy. In 1907, widowed, she married Buck Duke, who had divorced his first wife, Lillian N. McCready. Famed is...
Respectable citizens of Minneapolis were shocked and indignant one day last week as they listened to a Lenten program being played on the courthouse chimes. Right in the middle of the sacred music, the bells began to-yes, it was unmistakable, hundreds of respectable Minneapolitans recognized it and at once...
We must have been mistaken. Evening chimes have not been unknown to us and so we pardonably believed we knew of the slow and gracious beauty of bells rung for the beauty of their ringing. Our experience, we find, was limited. We are now to hear bells we have never...
The set, which is, if not the only one, one of the few collections of Russian chimes in America, consists of 18 bells. Thirteen of these were cast within 100 years of each other, and half of the nineteenth century. The largest of the bells is nine feet in diameter...