The Council of Independent Colleges: Historic Campus Architecture Project

Bell

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Institution Name: Lane College
Original/Historic Place Name: Bell
Location on Campus: lawn in front of Cleaves Hall
Date(s) of Construction:

n.d.	construction information unknown

Designer:
Type of Place: Landscape site
Style: (Glossary)
Significance: engineering, history
Narrative: see below
References: see below

Function:

n.d.	other (originally, signal classes, meals, and chapel; now ceremonial)

Narrative:
The Lane College bell symbolizes triumph over the many challenges confronting the College over the years since its founding. It was incorporated into the emblem on official college stationery in the mid-1990s. The bell was originally rung to signal changing of classes, meals, and the call to chapel; now it is largely ceremonial and rung only on occasions of the highest significance in the life of the college.

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