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The Russians are mad at Harvard again. But this time, instead of faculty bungling their economy, it’s an alum pilfering their bells. In 1930, Charles Crane bought 18 bells from the St. Danilov Monastery to save them from the Soviet authorities, who wanted to melt them down...
Let’s just think about the costs. If the University decided to give the bells back, it would have to dismantle the Lowell House tower, which was built around the bells, spending millions of dollars and disrupting student life for at least a semester. Significant parts of the...
His humor is only part of Du Puy’s very un-Harvard attitude. “Freshman year I thought I would be so interesting,” says Du Puy, who describes himself as shy but unconventional. “But in retrospect, I haven?...
Most historians agree that if Crane had not purchased the bells, they would have been destroyed long ago by the Soviet regime.
“Harvard has not only done a good job of curating and preserving the bells, but also of allowing them to be seen,” Bossert said. “If the situation in Russia is not so stable and the bells are so revered, perhaps they...