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...Duck, the Rushin Hacker,” claimed authorship for the mysterious message, which apparently referenced the bells housed in Lowell tower that originally belonged to the St. Danilov Monastery in Moscow...
Officials at the St. Danilov Monastery have said that the bells should be returned by March—the 700th anniversary of the death of their patron saint...
...seriousness, we naturally recognize that the Russian Church’s claim to the Danilov Bells contains more than a measure of legitimacy. Nevertheless, there is something irresistibly comic in the Church’s implicit demand that because we can send men to Mars, we ought to be able to dismantle the Lowell House Bell Tower and send the bells back to Russia in time for the 700th anniversary of Saint Danilov’s death, three months from...
...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, and donated them to Harvard. But now the rebuilt monastery wants them back by March...
...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’s death...