Word: mem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, Mem Hall's very desirability may be the agent that preserves it a few more years. The administration will want to put a crucial building in this Central location. What will it be? Harvard's planning evades precise prediction, and right now, the demands of five, ten, or twenty years from now are ambiguous. Somewhere within that ambiguity lies the future of Mem Hall...
Once this process begins, the logic of the situation will take over. The Mem Hall land will become increasingly valuable to the University. The construction of new buildings will make it logical and convenient for other buildings to be located in the area. Lowell Lecture Hall and the Harvard-owned house next to it will probably be consolidated into a site for a larger building. And after that, Mem Hall will be the only land left for expansion...
Moreover, for esthetic reasons, Mem Hall will grow obsolete. Now it is an isolated building on an isolated plot, but as development proceeds, something will be needed to unite the buildings, not separate them as Mem Hall would do. In short, it will become expendable because its utility--both practical and esthetic--will not approach the value of its real estate...
...general, demand for new space and new building sites (for which there are, of course, many possibilities other than Mem Hall) does seem to be strong. Consider some of the things floating around now: the Charles Warren Center for American History is not likely to stay indefinitely in the small wooden house at 53 Church St.; the Population Center, now located in a completely renovated house on Bow St., certainly will grow, and, with it, probably the need for a new home; the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies may someday wish to expand to larger quarters...
...millions that will be spent on future buildings, Harvard has already committed $1 million for the Design School land and $2.8 million (it could go to three) for the underpass. And, as the years go by, the dollar commitment will go up, the number of alumni defending Mem Hall will go down, and the day of the bulldozer will move gradually closer