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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...
...while a lot of renovation went on in the Yard this summer, none was on the scale of the guttings of Matthews, Thayer and Weld Halls that relegated several hundred first-years to 29 Garden St. over the past two years. Instead, the changes were more specific--replacing leaky roofs, installing new sprinkler systems, restoring a historic facade...
...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...