Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HARVARD community must rely on President Bok to make decisions privately and without warning, we might also hope to rely on his ability to make the correct one. In the case of Hunt Hall, it is far from clear that he has done...
Last fall the Bok administration gave the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies an assurance that Hunt Hall was in no forseeable danger of being torn down. Consequently, President Bok's announcement in March that the building would be destroyed to make way for a new dormitory took a lot of people by surprise...
...surprise is a time-proven tactic in war. In combat situations one wants to give his enemy as little time to react as possible. But Bok is not running a war--he is running a university-- and it is difficult to understand why he allowed the admirers of Hunt Hall so little time to plan their defense...
...discouraging to learn that Mr. Bok has so little concern for the historical and architectural value of Hunt Hall that he would decide with such haste to demolish the building. It is even more discouraging to find that President Bok has so little regard for the members of his community that he would fail to discuss with them the pros and cons of destroying one of the most important edifices in Harvard Yard...
...failure to make public the discussion of his plans for the site presently occupied by Hunt Hall has already put the Faculty Council in the awkward position of having to request that the administration reconsider an earlier decision. The Save Hunt Hall Committee is in even more difficult straits. Because President Bok has refused to open the demolition of Hunt Hall to Faculty consideration, the only way of preserving that building is by obtaining a court order against its destruction...