BELL MUST STAY; "OLD AS COLLEGE ITSELF" SAYS APTED

"It has been ringing since long before your time and mine, and it probably will be ringing long after we are gone", was Mr. C. R. Apted's comment yesterday when a CRIMSON reporter broached the subject of the seven o'clock bell.

"If you look through your files for the past 35 years", went on Mr. Apted, who is Superintendent of the University Care-Takers, "every now and then you will find the CRIMSON starting an agitation about that seven o'clock bell--but no one else seems to mind it much, except possibly Mr. Conant".

Though he admitted that the bell had more or less outlived its usefulness, he seemed quite overwhelmed at the thought of doing away with it." Why that is Harvard tradition", he said, "as old as the College itself. I wouldn't know how to go about abolishing it--I certainly don't feel that I have the authority to do it myself, and don't believe anyone has except the President".