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The bells that currently hang in Lowell House were purchased from the Soviet Union by American industrialist Charles R. Crane and donated to the University 73 years ago.
A joint statement issued by the University and the delegation from the 721-year-old Danilov Monastery said that Harvard’s only expenditure for a return of the bells would be the cost of the study.
As a delegation of Russian monks left Harvard yesterday after a weekend visit, the University announced that it would commission a study to determine the cost and feasibility of returning the Lowell House bells to their ancestral home in a Moscow monastery.
“It does mean more to the Russians than it does to us,” she said. “You don’t need to have the original Russian bells.”
“We should give the bells back as long as they give us replacement bells,” agreed Michelle T. Sonia ’06. “Russia’s older than Lowell...Their traditions go back longer than ours.”