Word: overcrowding
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...sooner was the Hunt Hall plan announced by Bok on March 22 than new controversy erupted. The Faculty Council passed a confidential resolution in early May asking that Bok consider relocating, or substantially reducing, the size of the dorm. The Council said the new building would overcrowd the Yard, or look out of place. An ad hoc Save Hunt Hall committee, which claimed that Hunt was an architectural land-mark, collected 779 signatures on a petition asking that Hunt be saved from demolition...
...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...
...Council's action came after viewing sketches for the new dormitory, which would house 220 students and their proctors. Members feared that the building would overcrowd and be incompatible with the atmosphere of the northern section of the Yard...
...only limitation SDS now intends to place on the number of people attending the convention is the capacity of the buildings posted by the Cambridge Fire Department. "We won't overcrowd Lowell Lec so as to be a fire hazard," she said...
...will become increasingly necessary to overcrowd people in the houses in the Fall, anticipating the drop in actual enrollment," Epps said...