Original description: "Girard." Reporter John Pierron details the events surrounding at the end of the NAACP picket at Girard College after 231 days of protests.
"In keeping with the spirit of the holidays, the University decides to ring the newly-hung bells of the Campanile, and students, faculty and administration gather to hear them."
"The largest bell weighs about 1500 pounds and the combined weight of the five bells is somewhere between 3,000 and 4,000 pounds. The bells are made of copper and tin - the tin prevents their cracking - and were hand-tuned after being cast and...
