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...male-female ratio that President Bok announced two years ago has resulted in an increase of about 300 students. The new dorm, which will be called Canaday Hall after Ward M. Canaday '07, the Toledo, Ohio oil magnate who donated the $3 million building fee, will lessen the crowded housing conditions in the Yard and the Houses...
Both buildings have aroused a tremendous amount of concern about the sacrosanct architectural environment of the Yard. In both cases, release of the building plans was delayed--the new dorm will start to go up over the summer even though its design has not yet been made public--because of a series of last-minute reviews of details...
...completed, to hear things like, "The thing that is the greatest concern is that the color of the building material and the texture of the material harmonize with the rest of the Yard," which is what Harold L. Goyette, the director of the Planning Office, says about the new dorm...
...PLANNING of the Pusey Library has proceeded fairly smoothly, although there have been a few complaints about its unorthodox appearance. The new freshman dorm, however, has been plagued by controversy. The Visual and Environmental Studies Department, the Faculty Council and many people living at Radcliffe have all expressed their disapproval of some aspect of the new dorm...
This is indeed what Harvard has done: it has committed itself to increasing by 300 the size of the College without adequately preparing for the effects of the influx of additional undergraduates. The new dorm will compensate for some of the increase but not all. Plans for construction at Radcliffe or a 65-70 student addition to Kirkland House are meaningless until Harvard or Radcliffe receive sufficient funding to complete the construction...