Word: saradjeff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bells, ranging is weight from 22 pounds to 13 tons, arrived in Cambridge in November of 1930. With them, the Soviets sent their most expert zvon-ringer, Saradjeff, to supervize their installation and to play them...
...vague character, who spoke only Russian and a smattering of German and French. Saradjeff's face had been seriously disfigured during the war, and this injury, or heredity, left him with a tendency to epileptic attacks...
Having studied engineering in Germany, the visting bell-ringer wanted to reduce camponology to a science. When shown the zvon, Saradjeff complained that one bell did not belong to the set. He also told President Lowell that there should be 17 additional bells...
...fourth bell--the one Saradjeff considered too close in tone to the third to belong with the others--does not hang in Lowell with the set. Instead it was placed in the Business School tower, where it strikes electrically for the change of classes. Dat- ing from about 1790, it is the oldest of the 18. With winged cherubs' heads deliciately inscribed around the should, the B-School's bell is also considered the most handsome...
Once in place, the bells needed a rigging of wires, levers, and foot pedals for operation. A Russian expert, Saradjeff, was brought from the fatherland to devise the system. With typical Rissian ingenuity, he planned a complex scheme which no one has since been able to figure out. It was reported, at the time, that Saradjeff himself forgot how the mechanism worked, took to fits, and was found drinking ink in the Lowell House Common Room. He was sent back to Russia...