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...column last spring. Boston Globe architecture critic Robert Campbell '58 called the ongoing decapitation of the Memorial Hall tower "an architectural Bobbitt case...
Campbell said yesterday that he was delighted to hear the tower might be rebuilt. But he said the clock, which was added 30 years after the building's dedication in 1878, should not be reconstructed...
...There's no question that [the tower] should be rebuilt," Campbell said. "It's awful now. I think that Harvard, by not rebuilding the tower, has destroyed its heritage...
...original tower did not have a clock and I think [it] was a much better piece of architecture," said Campbell, who attended the Graduate School of Design. "There's a lot of nostalgia apparently for the clock tower...
Knowles said last weekend that the decision to launch a fund to rebuild the tower reflects the University's commitment to its heritage...