[1] They also ring every fifteen minutes between 7:00 A.M. and 11:00 P.M. McGraw Tower was designed as part of Uris Library by William Henry Miller, and construction finished in 1891.

[3] The university took Sage's view, leading to years of litigation, but eventually, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Fiske.

However, the pumpkin rapidly dried out in the cold air and remained on the tower until it was removed with a crane on March 13, 1998 (it was planned that Provost Don M. Randel would remove it, but in a practice run the crane basket was blown by a gust of wind and knocked the pumpkin off).

[8] Widely considered the greatest prank in the university's history, the pumpkin prompted national media coverage, the creation of a live webcam, its own daily feature in one of the school papers, and at least two scientific inquiries into whether the object on top of the tower was, in fact, a pumpkin;[6][8] morphological, chemical, and DNA analysis confirmed that it was.

[12] On April 11, 2022, the tower resumed allowing public attendance of its chimes concerts after a near two-year hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.