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Italian style with garden
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WEDNESDAY
Actuarial Science will hear a talk at
7 p m in the Math Office on th**
third floor of Harrington
The Biomedical Science Associa
tion will host a party at the Lakeview
Chib at 8 p.m. You don't have to be a
bto-med major to go. Cost is S2 for
men and $1 for women.
The University Marine Fellows
will sponsor a seminar in Room 607
of Rudder Tower at 1 p. m. The topk
will he Determining and Designing
for Hurricane Effects on Texas Coas
tal Areas
Cap and Gown will meet in 140
MSC at 6 p. m.
Marketing Society will meet in
301 Tower at 7 p.m.
Soccer team will meet in 130 MSC
at 7 p.m.
Tiawan Goodwill Group will meet
in the Auditorium at 7 p.m.
Galveston HTC will meet in
Tower 308 at 7:30 p.m.
Speleogical Society will meet in
Tower 302 at 7:30 p.m.
Chamber Orchestra rehersal will
meet in MSC 229 at 7:30 p.m.
Delta Y will meetinTowerSlOatS
p.m.
Industrial Education Society will
meet in Tower 410 at 8 p.m.
BLOW-UP will he shown in the
Theater at 8 p.m.
Class of 76 will meet in Tower 601
at 8 p.m.
An Economics Departmental
Seminar will lx* held in Rudder 301
from 3 to 4 p.m. Guest speaker w ill
be Dr. Robert Fogel from Harvard
University.
THURSDAY
The TAMU Horsemen s Associa
tion will meet at 7 p.m. in Room 217
of the Animal Industries Building
CWENS will meet in Tow er 501 af
5 p.m.
Texas A&cM Auxilian Force will
meet in Tower 308 at 7 p.m.
Corpus Christie HTC will meet in
Tower 410 at 7 p.m.
Radio Board will meet in MSC
216-B at 7 p.m.
Class of '79 Council will meeet in
MSC 140-A at 7:30 p.m.
San Angelo HTC will meet in
MSC 140 at 7:30 p.m.
Students for Responsible Expres
sion will meet inTower 510at 8p.m.
Professor Dik Vrooman will speak
in Tower 601 at 8 p.m.
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Chinese culture
Rings Hashing and skirts aswirl, members of the perform the Golden Ring Dance. The entire
Youth Goodwill Mission of the Republic of China program can be seen tonight at 7:30.
Taiwan
dancers
perform
The Youth Goodwill Mission of
the Republic of China, touring the
United States in honor of the bicen
tennial. was introduced to area news
media yesterday.
At 7:30 tonight, the members of
the Youth Goodwill Mission will pre
sent a program of folk dances and
songs, a native fashion parade, tradi
tional festivals and a demonstration
of Chinese Kung-Fu.
The event is sponsored by the
Chinese Students Association and
the International Students' Associa
tion.
The proceeds of the performance
will be donated to the Guatemalan
Relief Fund as an expression of in
ternational friendship.
Tickets are available at the Rudder
Tower and Woolworth in Bryan.
Students and teachers from vari
ous colleges and universities in
Taiwan comprise the group.
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Each member must compete for a
place in the group, its director,
Tieh-Cheng Liu, a professor of law at
the National Cheng-Chi University,
said.
After the competition the mem
bers spend about three weeks re
hearsing for the performances.
The group performed three selec
tions yesterday.
All male students who had less than
21 transfer credit hours before enter
ing A&M and whose GPR after their
first semester at A&M was 3.5 or better
are invited to come to 237A Zachry,
Wednesday, March 24 or Thursday,
March 25 for the purpose of determin
ing whether they are eligible for the
Honor Society, Phi Eta Sigma.
.
e only good reason to get bigger is to get better.
Liberty Bell rings
out independence
It was a warm day in July.
Independence Square, as it is
now called, and the streets of
Philadelphia were {lacked with
men and women who had
waited for hours with faces lifted
toward the bell, wondering if
their representatives would
vote to declare independence.
A messenger hurried up the
stairs to the belfry and the tones
of the bell hurst upon the silent
and waiting city. For two hours
the sound of the bell was heard,
proclaiming freedom to the col
onies.
The new Province Bell, later
to be known as the Liberty Bell,
was cast by Thomas Lister of
Whitechapel, London, and ar
rived in Philadelphia in August,
1752. It had been commis
sioned by the Pennsylvania
Provincial Assembly to hang in
the new State House (later re
named Independence Hall).
Before the hell could be
raised to the tower, a news
paper report of the time said "it
was cracked by a stroke of the
clapper during a test without
any further violence” and was
recast by Pass and Stow, "two
ingenious workmen,” of
Philadelph ia.
In the recasting, the bell was
broken up and the same metal
melted down to he used in the
new bell. To the old metal was
added one and one-half ounces
of American copper to the
pound of old bell metal to make
it less brittle. However, so
much copper was added that
the bell’s tone proved too
brassy, and still another bell
had to he cast.
The third Liberty Bell pre
served the shape and lettering
of the original hut substituted
the names of the craftsmen and
the place and date of recasting.
Aonnd the crown was inscribed
the Biblical motto "Proclaim
liberty throughout the land
unto all the inhabitants thereof
(Lev. 25:10).”
Historians say the quotation
was probably chosen to recall
William Penn’s Charter of
Priveleges, but the sentiment
fitted the American Revolution
so well that few people now re
member the earlier connota
tion.
Finally in June, 1753, the
third bell was hung in the State
House steeple where it re
mained in use until the steeple
was taken down on July 16,
1781. The bell was then lowered
into the brick tower of the State
House.
Long before the bell was sing
led out to proclaim liberty
throughout the land, the State
House bell clanged defiance of
British tax and trade restrictions
and announced the Boston Tea
Party.
As the British advanced on
Philadelphia in 1777, the bell
was moved to Allentown for
safety. The following year, it
was returned to Philadelphia
and pealed joyfully for Ameri
can victories during the re
mainder of the Revolutionary
War.
Repair efforts were unsuc
cessful, and the hell hung mute
and almost forgotten until 1846
when it was taken down from
the tower. After being shifted to
various locations within Inde
pendence Hall, it was placed in
the base of the Tower. There
the Liberty Bell remained until
New Year's Eve, 1975, when it
was moved to the new Liberty
Bell Pavilion one block north of
Independence Hall.
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