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The bells came from the St. Danilov Monastery in Moscow, where officials miss their distinct sounds and are calling for their return after 72 years of Harvard possession. They’ve set a return deadline—March 2003 at the latest, the 700th anniversary of St. Danilov?...
“The bells are beautiful. You can see why they consider them an important part of Russian history,” said Lowell House Master Diana L. Eck. “If it was a practical matter to remove them, it would be a good thing to do...
Lowell House representatives and officials from the University President’s office have been discussing the question of returning the bells, but Eck said they were “highly unlikely” to reach a decision before March. The decision, she said, would come from higher University administrators...
According to William H. Bossert ’59, Arnold professor of science and a former Lowell master, removing the bells from their perch in the Lowell tower would cost tens of millions of dollars and require more than a summer’s worth of renovations. ?...
The bells, which were originally crafted for the monastery in the 17th and 18th centuries, were purchased from St. Danilov’s in the 1920s by industrialist Charles Crane when the Russian government threatened to melt them.