Word: dorms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...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...
...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...