ALSO INVOLVED was the issue of freshman housing. Harvard freshmen, except for the minority who are now assigned to Radcliffe Houses, live segregated from the other classes, in the Yard. Radcliffe, on the other hand, has always had four-class living arrangements. Housing construction at the Quad would commit a larger proportion of the freshmen class to the four-class arrangement, while construction in the Yard would further institutionalize the Harvard arrangement.

A design involving construction of "fill-in" units between the Radcliffe dorms ringing the Quad was unanimously approved by the South House Committee, and seemed likely to win approval over the Hunt Hall plan. However, short of capital funds, the University's decision in favor of the demolition of Hunt, was made by the man who put up the money--Ward M. Canaday '07, a Toledo, Ohio automobile magnate, who gave $3 million.

No sooner was the Hunt Hall plan announced by Bok on March 22 than new controversy erupted. The Faculty Council passed a confidential resolution in early May asking that Bok consider relocating, or substantially reducing, the size of the dorm. The Council said the new building would overcrowd the Yard, or look out of place. An ad hoc Save Hunt Hall committee, which claimed that Hunt was an architectural land-mark, collected 779 signatures on a petition asking that Hunt be saved from demolition.

Although no one argued that Hunt represented great architecture, and represented great architecture, and very few people knew where the building was before the controversy, Len Gittleman, lecturer on photography, called Hunt "the only building in Boston that represents the struggles of American architecture at the turn of the century," and the Society of Architectural Historians joined the fight to preserve the structure.

Hunt Hall was designed by architect Richard Hunt, who also designed the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It was completed in 1895 to house the Fogg Art Museum, which was since moved to a building on Quincy Street, across from the Yard.

The building was an instant failure. The Crimson said, "The lines of the building are hardly what the College had hoped for." Observers found the building "squatty," "awkward," or wished that it had more height and more windows. When Memorial Church was built just south of its site, Hunt became a hidden anomaly in the Yard, chopping at the tall white spire of the proud Church.

FACED WITH the need to put Canaday's $3 million somewhere, Bok cut down the size of the proposed dorm, winning approval for the project from the Faculty Council, and announced to the Save Hunt Hall lobby that the building would come down.

In spite of all the controversy involved with the dorm site, Canaday is only a temporary solution. By the time it is open for occupancy, the Continental will have been given over to graduate students, and in spite of the 200 students housed in Canaday, the University will have 100 extra bodies on its hands. And at this time, no one know where those bodies will be housed.

"A year from now, I wouldn't be surprised if we're putting people up on army cots in Memorial Hall," Burris Young, associate dean of Freshmen, said last month. Because the 2.5:1 decision was made without a thorough consideration of its effects on the University as a whole, Harvard's housing problems may continue for some time.

Construction is also going on outside the Yard. On May 10, ground was broken for the Tozzer Library, on Divinity Avenue north of the Yard. The new library will house 100,000 books on anthropology and ethnography. It will serve as an addition to the severely overcrowded Peabody Museum Library. The $1.6 million library is named after one of its donors, Alfred M. Tozzer '00, a Mayan scholar and former professor of Anthropology.

THE STICKIEST of Harvard's building projects is the Kennedy Library complex, to be built on a 12-acre site now occupied by subway yards across Boylston Street from Eliot House. The development is the work of the Kennedy Corporation, which is in charge of the Kennedy Library and a museum exhibiting Kennedy Administration memorabilia on the site, but the complex will also include the Kennedy School of Government and the Institute of Politics, both Harvard institutions. The subway yards will be vacated by the MBTA in May 1974, and the library is slated to be finished by May 1976.

The museum itself will be enclosed inside a seven-story glass pyramid. A crescent-shaped five story building will curve around three sides of the museum, housing the School of Government, the Institute, and over 12 million pages of documents from the kennedy Administration. Commonwealth Park, dedicated to the people of Massachusetts--who gave their land for the complex--will face the Charles River.

The $27 million project is now only half the size that was originally planned. "It was scaled down for dollar considerations and to better fit in with the design of Harvard Square," Stephen c. Smith, the president of the Kennedy Corporation, explained.

Architect I.M. Pei designed the complex to blend with the surrounding area. "Because this is a relatively large piece of land, we are able to maintain the size and bulk of the Harvard Houses," he said. The main building, at 55 feet, will equal Eliot and Kirkland Houses in height.

The White Kennedy first announced in 1961 that Kennedy would build his library in Cambridge, and in 1963 he chose a site near the Business School. In 1965, the City Council invited the library to build in Cambridge, and specifically mentioned the subway yard site. However, in spite of this and the prestige value of the library, as well as the construction jobs it is likely to provide, the complex has run into much opposition in the community.