GIFT OF CHIME OF BELLS FOR LIBRARY IS ANNOUNCED

President Hopkins has announced the gift to the College of a great chime of bells to be placed in the tower of the new $1,000,000 Library, which is nearing completion and will be dedicated next Spring.

The Library is the gift of Mr. George F. Baker, the New York banker, and is given as a memorial to his uncle Fisher Ames Baker.

The name of the donor of the great chime is not announced except for the fact that he is a graduate of the College. The amount of the gift for this purpose is $40,000.

There are to be fifteen bells in the chime, ranging in weight from nearly three tons to a few hundred pounds, thus keeping within the range of the best attuned bell practice, which decrees that very large and very small bells do not sound homogeneous when rung together. The chime is being made at the foundry of the Meneely Bell Cos. in Troy, N. Y., a firm whose ancestors produced the first bells cast in America.

Professor Maurice F. Longhurst, of the Dartmouth faculty, who is a native of England, and who is a well known authority on sound, made the selection after hearing the most recent bell installations of both American and European manufacture. It is believed that the Dartmouth Chime will in quality of tone and attunement have no peer, its setting in the sky-piercing belfry two hundred feet high probably making it the highest group of bells in the country, outside those installed on city sky-scrapers.

Besides being equipped with an electric action for operation from a key board placed near the organ console in the College Chapel, a unique device will be installed for automatically playing changes such as are familiarly associated with attuned bells in many foreign lands.