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But people who make and move bells for a living said this week that the Lowell bells can be sent back to Moscow with much less trouble than Bossert predicted.
Former Lowell Master William H. Bossert ’59 estimated last year that removing the bells could cost tens of millions of dollars and require closing the House for a semester.
Other administrators have mentioned potentially exorbitant cost as a reason the University might not return the bells.
Verdin estimated a cost of $100,000 to reinforce the belfry and then take out the bells.
Because the largest three bells—Mother Earth, along with a 6.5-ton and a 2.5-ton bell—won’t fit through the openings on the side of the tower, Verdin said, one of the columns around the bells would have to be removed.