Word: puseys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made it clear to Stubbins that the Pusey Library should disturb the Yard's appearance as little as possible. He was especially concerned with the view of the library from the Widener-Memorial Church quadrangle, since Commencement is held in front of Memorial Church and graduating seniors and alumni might be upset about an ungainly building intruding on their view of the ceremonies...
Clearly, Bok was still not completely sure that the library would blend visually with the Yard. The Pusey Library will be the first new building under his presidency, although he supervised the design of several buildings while he was dean of the Law School. The two most recent buildings at Harvard--Gund Hall and the Science Center--have raised a huge storm of criticism from students and faculty...
...PUSEY LIBRARY will rise only nine feet above ground level. It will be covered with grass, shrubs and walkways, and a grassy surrounding mound will shield it from view. It will look, if anything, more foliated than the dusty open space between Houghton and Lamont that it will replace...
...library's bottom two levels will be devoted to stack space for books now housed in Widener, Houghton, and Lamont--the University Archives, the Map Collection, the Theater Collection and about 1 million miscellaneous books. "What will be going into the Pusey Library already exists," Robert Walsh says. "There will be no new staff or new books--just more space. We've had to move several things out of Widener in the past for space reasons. Just in the last few years we've taken out the music, art, history of education, landscape architecture and current science collections and housed...
Walsh says that the Pusey Library will be open only to those who need to use the special collections there. There will be a guard at the library's entrance who will ask people trying to enter what they want to use at the library before letting them...