Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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In addition to rearing up as a symbol of scholarly pursuit, it took on on added duty in 1914. The clock was installed then to tick off the hours of a school day. Later electric lights were added to illuminate it at night. Steel beams have been rushed to the assis- tance of the hand-hewn logs which still support its original structure. Generations of students have gazed out its windows over a physically chang- ing campus. Their names are crudely enshrined in its wooden frame. Evi- dently Monica and Welsch didn ' t realize that 47 would some day be meaningless without the 18 before it. Cutler Tower has remained through the years, and has seen even more than the hopeful founders, Monosseh Cutler and Rufus Putnam, along with early pioneering students, dreamed it would.

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CUTLER TOWER When a student sits in a class and waits for the bell to ring, at least he has the consolation of knowing that it will ring. That ' s more assurance than stu- dents of by-gone days had. For bock when school bells were in vogue, even in college, pranksters were ever present. From the bell in old Cutler Tower extended a rope, which hung down to the janitor ' s closet on the first floor. Every hour the rope was pulled to ring the signal for class exchange. More than once it was late. This usually sig- nified o missing rope. Only a short, frayed remmont would remain. And another student culprit had apparently accomplished his job. Installed in 1820, the old bell now stands silent within the tower. Its use- fulness has been replaced by automatic bells. Cutler Tower, itself, has under- gone the evolution of a university ' s age. Bv k ' litliv Denqjer 14

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Every minute s bu 5y The English was easy, but oooh, that psych! . Last night ' s meal? Icky already having butterflies in my stomach CAROiyN COMES I brought everything along — even dishes. All the kids at home who were going to Wesleyan were buying dishes to eat on. So I thought, Gee, I wont to eat, too. I couldn ' t help crying a little when Mom and Dad left. I was ready to go — well, no, I didn ' t want to go home. But I didn ' t wont them to leave either. Then I saw a guy from home. It ' s so good to see someone you know! I love my roommate. I was afraid we wouldn ' t like the some things, but Liz Is wonderful. She didn ' t know how to say my name until the third day, and then she got up the nerve to ask me. The Oh, hello They do neck in the lounge?