49 He remarked, "While I have no objection to giving the bell to the Old Mill, I believe that the college should have first consideration since there is greater concentration of public activity there." Mayor Peery said he had no objection to the decision made by Commissioner Rackham. A few days later, the bell was presented to Weber College by Mayor Harmon Peery with the understanding that the students arrange to take it down from the tower. Dr. H. Aldous Dixon, president of the College, acknowledged the gift by writing a letter to the Mayor advising him that "the gift would be a symbol which would be heralded loud and long by [the] student body of 750 and would be most gratfully received." The transfer of the half-ton bell from the high tower in the City Hall to the College campus was something for the students to be concerned about. The only access to the tower's top landing was through a series of trap doors. The school paper, the Signpost, humorously reported that "embryonic student schemes included everything from lowering it down a hole chopped from roof to basement, to tossing it over the brink into the rescue net of the local fire brigade." It became physically impossible for the students to retrieve the bell in time for the Homecoming game with Albion State Normal College on November 11, 1938, so it