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Harvard's Bells, Asia's Crane...
Thrilled not only by best Russian bells but by best Arabian coffee, best Confucian music, and by all the exotic bests which the East has to offer, is President Lowell's great & good friend Charles Richard Crane, onetime President of Chicago's potent Crane (plumbing) Co., onetime U. S. Minister to China (1920-21). When the Harvard publicity office divulged that Harvard's Russian bells are "the gift of a member of the Crane family," there could be no doubt as to which Crane was meant...
...trips to Russia. He has said and truly, "I have seen more of Asia than any other man." Well may Harvard rejoice to receive from this unique non-alumnus (his sons are Harvard men, not he), supreme bells. First wind of the gift came not long ago when Mr. Crane and President Lowell were seen prowling about Lowell House. Together the two oldsters, fairly chuckling, measured the tower-not originally conceived as a bell tower. There was barely room for those bells...
...Crane Years: 1858: Charles R. was born the son of self-made Richard Teller Crane, famed college-man-hater who used to dumbfound Chicago socialites by growling, "Don't mind me, I'm only a plumber...
...yard free style swim--Won by Foster (Y); second, Crane (Y); third, F. Ayer (H). Time...