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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Have you any information as to the justifications provided for the policy of ringing the Mem Church bell 26 times each hour during the day and 126 times (roughly) before every Church service? The latter ordeal of bell-ringing takes five minutes, and renders sleeping in the Yard dormitories impossible from 8:40 to 8:45 a.m. on week-days, and from 10:55 to 11:00 on Sundays.

Has it been considered that some souls who are convinced to attend church by the first seventeen bongs may change their minds after the excessive repetition of the argument which the remaining 109 bongs constitute? Freshman Committee for Resolution of the Mem Church Bell Enigma.

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