Word: zvon
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Often cursed often misunderstood, often neglected, Lowell's bells are, believe it or not, true Russian Zvon, or carillon. Students of all the Houses, and cantabridgians for miles around, often hear them Sunday as they receive their monthly once-over by Arthur T. Meritt, associate professor of Music...
...saradjeff came with the bells as a sort of auxiliary gift. Born of a family of talented Zvon-players, he was reared in an atmosphere of Zvon. By the time he arrived in America, he had already composed 132 symphonies for the Russian carillon, and was rumored to know by its tone each of the 4000 bells in Moscow. Saradjeff was commissioned of install the Lowell House set and to teach the art of playing them to various candidates...
Seventeen bells make up a real Russian Zvon sot. Lowell House has only 16, one of them having been found to be more out of key than the others. The family bell, fourth largest in the set, now signals the end of classes at the Business School. The 16 at Lowell range in size from a 13-ton brute to a pint-sized gremlin of 22 pounds...
...first nobody could be found to play the bells in saradjeff's absence, but soon they began to toll again, this time under the hands of two professor from Columbia and Smith. In addition, Mason Hammond '25, associate professor of Classica and History, displayed his talents on the zvon when special occasions warranted an extra ringing...
...first the Zvon were played every Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, but whom too many students complained that the pealing drowned out the concert of the New york Philharmonic, the time was changed. After making sure that the masses at St. Paul's Church were over by 12:30 o'clock, Professor Coolidge decided upon that hour...