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...early as last November, it was rumored that Bok had a donor all lined up for the new dorm. But there was apparently one problem with the arrangement: Bok and Radcliffe President Horner wanted the dorm to be built at Radcliffe, most probably as a series of additions to South House, and the donor refused to have it anywhere but the Yard. The matter must still have been in doubt by late January, because a series of blueprints for construction at Radcliffe--in the form of connecting wings between existing Quad dorms--was drawn up and posted at South House...
...March 22, Bok announced that the new dorm would be built on the site of Hunt Hall, that it would be no more than five stories tall and would house about 240 students and their proctors. Bok said that the dorm would be completed by September 1974, and that the Visual and Environmental Studies Department, which is now located in Hunt Hall, would move to Sever Hall...
...early May, the Faculty Council passed a confidential resolution asking Bok and the Corporation to consider relocating or substantially reducing the size of the new dorm. The Council was apparently afraid that the dorm would overcrowd the Yard and look out of place. The Council saw the Hunt Hall site as the last possible site for new construction in the Yard...
...week later, the Faculty Council, after examining new plans calling for a reduction in the size of the dorm, reversed its disapproval. The new plans set the capacity of the dorm at 205 students, 33 less than originally planned...
...released the dorm plans, so no one has more than a sketchy idea of what it will look like. It will be made up of several sections connecting to form a rectangle which will be partially open in the corner of the dorm nearest Robinson Hall. A second part of the dorm will lie on the Robinson Hall side of the larger structure. The dorm will be four stories high in most places, although a few sections will rise to five stories. However, even the highest sections will be lower than Thayer Hall. The dorm will almost surely look very...