Campbell Picked to Toll of Future Victories on Lowell House Chimes

The Lowell House bells, silent since the end of the last school year, shall ring again.

The famous Muscovite chimes, long a source of pleasure to music lovers and a source of annoyance to late sleepers, have found a new carillonneur, Gordon Campbell, a House tutor from British Columbia, and the melodic chimes may start any day, thanks to the Corporation.

Until yesterday, the bells could only be sounded upon notification from that august body, but at Monday's meeting of the Corporation it was decided to turn the entire problem over to Elliott Perkins '23, master of the House. Perkins was ceded the right to pick the bell ringer and to have the bells rung whenever he wanted to hear them.

The first issue that came up was the need for bells to signify great victories and Perkins stated that the bells will ring if Harvard beats Princeton tomorrow or if Lowell House wins the intramural football league.

But, in addition to this, Campbell will provide a late Sunday morning concert to serenade returning church goers. The first such concert will be this Sunday.

Campbell succeeds Richard F. French, the former bell ringer who left last year.

The first man, a Russian named Saradjeff, came with the carillon when it was originally brought from Russia. But he did not take to American life, and thought that someone was trying to poison him when he had to eat House food. After Saradjeff had drunk a bottle of ink and spent a brief period of recuperation in Stillman, he went back to Russia, and for a long time the bells were silent.