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...many Crimson readers know, the Patriarch of the Russian Church has appealed to have the Lowell House Bells returned to the Motherland. We regret to inform the Patriarch that we are too noisily a-pealing ourselves to pay much attention to his own outrageous appealing. We thank The Crimson for its support of the Lowell House Bells and offer the following “Mini-Epic of the Lowell House Bells” as a token of our appreciation of The Crimson’s eloquent and highly persuasive argument on our behalf (Editorial, “Our House...
...seems some Russian Patriarch Would topple our Towering Landmark To take back the bells He says he knows wells And claims are Saint Danilov’s trademark...
...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...
...been our honor to steward the Bells during their exile from Russia, and we hope that a mutually satisfactory agreement will be reached between Harvard and the Russian Church concerning the future of the zvon. In the mean time, the Lowell House Bells will continue to ring every Sunday from 1 to 1:15 p.m. and on special occasions. We welcome visitors at these ringings, and invite any souls brave enough to try their own hands at ringing the Lowell House Bells...
...offended and disgusted at the elitist chauvinism displayed in Friday’s Crimson editorial (Editorial, “Our House, Our Bells,” Dec. 13). It is not our place to belittle and ridicule the value of the bells to the Russian people, nor compare it with our own convenience and monetary expense. Harvard students probably wouldn’t even notice if the bells were replaced with any other set of bulky and painfully mistuned relics. In contrast, residents of Moscow clearly consider the bells to be symbolic of a tradition that was rudely interrupted...