Word: puseys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order to discuss and evaluate the impact of Canaday Hall and the Pusey Library, the two buildings currently under construction in Harvard Yard, one must first define the elements which make the Yard a unique environment, then project a design ideal for its future development...
Having decided that new construction was necessary, the Planning Office and its project architects claim to have given high priority to the preservation of the Yard in both the theoretical and physical design of Canaday Hall and the Pusey Library--with what appears from models and drawings to be varying degrees of consistency and success...
...case of the Pusey Library, we are dealing with a new factor, a building which represents a serious deviation in the system. Although Widener, Houghton and Lamont are currently connected by underground tunnels, an underground building is not merely an extension of the tunnel system. Present technology does not allow us to hide a building--a structure below ground will make its presence felt on the ground because of the type of surface it generates and because of a shallow soil layer which cannot support large plant materials. In terms of its interaction with the rest of the Yard...
...COURSE, not everyone appointed by President Pusey was exclusively scholarly either--Peretz's predecessor, Mary I. Bunting, was president of Radcliffe, and F. Skiddy von Stade '38, master of Mather, wears almost as many hats as Kiely does. But Bok's bureaucrats, by and large, seem younger, more ambitious, more into the nuts and bolts of things, and maybe closer to the central administration than their predecessors--like Charles U. Daley, Bok's vice president for government and community affairs, or Stephen B. Farber '63, special assistant to Bok, or Stephen S. J. Hall, vice president for administration...
Construction begins again on the Nathan Marsh Pusey Library after a Buildings and Grounds maintenance man discovers that the floors underground have been installed upside down. "They told me to walk down three flights to clean the skylight on the floor!" the workman reports...