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Next year's completion of Canaday Hall, a new freshman dormitory in the Yard, promises to ease over-crowding in the Houses. After careful study by a committee, the administration figured out a way to justify construction of a new freshman dorm in the face of a shrinking incoming class and overcrowding among upperclassmen. Von Stade sent freshmen a letter asking for volunteers for a second tour of duty in Harvard's oldest dormitories. As combat pay, von Stade offered them guaranteed affiliation with one of their top-rate Houses and the pick of accommodations in the Yard...
...Harvard's credit, there has been an effort made recently to attract big money for building at Radcliffe. In fact, Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52, vice president for alumni affairs and development, and President Bok gave Ward M. Canaday '07 a personal guided tour around Radcliffe last year before he decided that his money for construction belonged in the Yard. The plans that were circulated for massive building on the eastern side of the Radcliffe Quad are still posted in the basement of South House's Cabot Hall. Undergraduates may see the Radcliffe dormitory area and the River Houses...
...insulation installers become covered with crumbling asbestos sealants while working in the steam tunnels that connect Harvard buildings. The incessant swirl of stop-and-go traffic around Cambridge exposes us all to fibers ground off brake shoe linings. Demolition and construction activities on the Nathan M. Pusey Library and Canaday Hall constitute another major source of asbestos pollution...
...center. Harry F. Colt, director of the University development office, said last week that his office had spent more time last year on the cultural center fund-raising project than any other. Yet the fact remains that the University finds millions of dollars for the Pusey Library and Canaday Hall and not a cent for the cultural center...
...Burris Young '55, associate dean of freshmen, said yesterday that he has been assured that Canaday Hall, the new freshman dormitory being built in the Yard, would be completed on time. "They tell me that barring an act of God, it's going to be finished," he said...