Word: thayer
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Within the next few weeks, the Foundation will be moving, from its offices in the basement of University Hall, to offices in the basement of Thayer Hall, the first-year dormitory next door...
Logistically, the move doesn't mean a whole lot. University Hall is a nice building full of administrative offices, smack in the middle of Harvard Yard; Thayer Hall is a nice, newly-renovated dorm just a few yards to the north. The Foundation will have slightly more space in its new digs than it did in the old location...
...symbolic importance. University Hall--the home of Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 and Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III--is a decision-making hub, a center of power on campus second only to Massachusetts Hall. The basement of Thayer Hall, by contrast, while only a few steps away, is miles apart in terms of prestige. Until its recent renovation, the basement housed the Harvard Student Agencies; many students remember it as the place they went to drop off their dry cleaning...
...move? It depends on whom you ask. Knowles says it is a result of space considerations and the upcoming renovations of University Hall. "Had we not secured (the Thayer Hall space) now for the Foundation, it was clear to me that when University Hall itself is renovated in the relatively near future, only much less desirable and much less central space would have been available," Knowles wrote in an Oct. 12 letter to the Foundation's Student Advisory Committee...
...Lionel, the exterior of Massachusetts, Mower and Weld Halls were redone; in 1993, Greenough, Hollis, Hurlbut, Matthews, Pennypacker, Stoughton and Thayer underwent varying degrees of renovation...