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Although the University is obligated to keep alive a memorial to the Civil War dead, "Memorial Hall has deteriorated to such an extent that it can no longer be considered a fitting memorial," Walter F. Bogner, professor of Architecture, told the CRIMSON yesterday...
According to Bogner, "A new memorial should be created such that the old Memorial Hall will be kept alive in spirit." He felt that a skillful architect could retain the memorial quality which the donors of the building originally requested and at the same time erect a new structure which would be adaptable to the pressing present-day needs of the University...
Since the building occupies the most central site in the Harvard area, any new building there should be one of the most imfortant University structures, Bogner said. He added that the location for a Harvard-Radcliffe theatre as proposed by the Visual Arts Committee last spring--the area adjacent to Fogg Museum--was "totally inadequate and there would be no better location for such a building as on the Memorial Hall triangle...
...major difficulty with Memorial Hall is that it is so poorly equipped and illumnied and so shapeless that it is unsuitable for modern use. Its heating and lighting are outmoded so that the structure can't be used advantageously for any function," Bogner explained...
Trottenberg and Bogner both said, however, that there sites are not at all definite and were only used to give the students a wide range of possibilities for design...