Bells mark Commencement
In celebration of the city of Cambridge and of the country’s oldest University, the joyous peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge today (May 26). For the 23rd consecutive year, a number of neighboring churches and institutions will ring their bells at the conclusion of Harvard’s 360th Commencement exercises. The bells will ring at 11:30 a.m. for approximately 15 minutes, just after the sheriff of Middlesex County declares the Commencement exercises adjourned. The deep-toned bell in the Memorial Church tower — for years the only bell to acknowledge the festival rites of Commencement — will be joined by the bells at Lowell House, Harvard Business School, Harvard Divinity School, the historic 13-bell “Harvard Chime” of Christ Church Cambridge, the bells of the Church of the New Jerusalem, First Church Congregational, First Parish Unitarian Universalist, St. Paul Roman Catholic Church, St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church, University Lutheran Church, Holy Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church,...