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...North Yard, Hunt Hall, long an architectural curiosity, and recently the home of the Vis Stud Department and the Graduate School of Design, has been demolished to make way for Canaday Hall, a new freshman dorm. At the other end of the Yard, bulldozers and dynamite are digging a 40-foot trench that will become, hopefully by the spring of 1975, the Pusey Library, an addition to Widener...
Noise from the two sites will jackhammer at the ears of Yard residents for some time. The structural frame of the dorm will be going up during the Fall, and will hopefully be completed by the first frost, so that inside work can be done during the winter. Canaday will be ready for occupancy in the Fall of 1974 of all goes well, but he Pusey site will be an obstacle to anyone walking through the Yard until April...
...Canaday Hall project was motivated by a different kind of overcrowding. In October 1971, President Bok announced a plan by which the University would move from a 4:1 ratio of men to women to a 2.5:1 ratio, substantially adding to Radcliffe enrollment while keeping Harvard class size fairly stable. Beginning with the Class of 1976, Radcliffe enrollment was to be increased from 315 a class, to about 450, and Harvard class size dropped from 1200 to about 1150. The Bok plan, in sum therefore, called for an increase of about 10 undergraduates a year. In fact, Harvard Admissions...
...Quad was unanimously approved by the South House Committee, and seemed likely to win approval over the Hunt Hall plan. However, short of capital funds, the University's decision in favor of the demolition of Hunt, was made by the man who put up the money--Ward M. Canaday '07, a Toledo, Ohio automobile magnate, who gave $3 million...
FACED WITH the need to put Canaday's $3 million somewhere, Bok cut down the size of the proposed dorm, winning approval for the project from the Faculty Council, and announced to the Save Hunt Hall lobby that the building would come down...