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Lowell House attempted to share their coveted bells in spirit—if not in kind—with their original owner in a noontime ceremony yesterday.
Cast for the monastery in the 17th and 18th centuries, the bells were bought by industrialist Charles Crane in the 1920s after the Russian government threatened to melt them down, and were given to University President A. Lawrence Lowell as a gift in 1930.
The monastery said last year that it hoped for the return of the bells before yesterday’s anniversary, but Eck and Austin said that financial and tactical concerns prevented the unlikely exchange.
“Our ringing of the bells should be overlapping with the end of the day and the end of a 6 p.m. ceremony in Moscow,” Eck said.
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