INTERNATIONAL: Harvard's Bells, Asia's Crane

INTERNATIONAL

Harvard's Bells, Asia's Crane

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As might a proud but modest hen, couched on a whole nestful of golden eggs, President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard discouraged last week the query, "How come?"

The President's golden eggs are golden-voiced bells, the largest and finest set of Russian church bells ever brought to a foreign land. They were being hung last week at Harvard in the tower of new Lowell House, a tower with a roof of royal blue, richer than Yale blue, blue as Lowell blood.

Dr. Lowell is deep in...

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