Longwood College - Virginian Yearbook (Farmville, VA)

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The Liberty Bell signifies to Americans the freedom for which our forefathers fought, a precious heritage for posterity. Today, in the four corners of the earth, Americans are fight ' ing for that heritage, our freedom happine the pursuit of tribute to a ' Bell Li AFE ' S minor incidents as well as major crises are preceded by tocsins — the shrill shrie of a siren, the hlat of a whistle, the moaning of a fog horn, or the tolling of a hell. Signifying happiness, rest, sorrow, or peace, they divide the course of human events into separate phases. The oldest and to us the most significant is the hell which for centuries has rung to

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Miss Elizabeth Burger

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A small ragged hoy placed a gifts of the wealthy, but for penny on an altar, and high the love that w:is in the above the Christmas bells heart of the humblest giver. chimed — not for the rich hour, another hell rings in a new day and awakens seven hundred sleepy girls. We listen throughout the day for the clanging of the hell m the tower, calling time for hreahjast, class, clia x ' I devotions, lunch, afternoon class- = tell of happenings, great and small. To the cs, mght mail, poor and humhle gleaners, the Angelus and then that ended a day of toil and hegan a time of dll softening -= rest; to a child named Peter the chimes of overpowering a mighty cathedral told of simpUcity and nell. the tocsin love; to the British Empire. Big Ben of the soul, the meant iini ied strength; and to enslaved 7iien everywhere the Lih- erty Bell sang a neiv song, a song of free dom. As people have listened for its mean- ingful ring all through the ages, we too listen and pay tribute to a hell. At sunset as the angelus pealed its message across the fields, weary wor ers paused for a moment of prayer and started the jour ' ney homeward as night shadows deepened- night which meant rest for the weary and the peace of home. Big Ben, unchanging, goes on mar!{ing the hours for a great nation, a nation whose people have endured with patience and faith the hardships and heart- break of war — in its steadiness It is symbolic of British courage and stability. diiDic ' r bell. l ightly activities of study, meetings, hull sessions, go on until the tolling of the curfew. Lights go out one by one; voices become lower A sound hreaks the silence of six a. m., and finally cease. Through the night re- momentarily interrupting sleep. Another sounds the fading tone of The Bell.