Counting House

New architectural departures at Harvard, announced last week, were received more calmly than "Hush Hall" was at Yale. The Harvard planning board declared its intention of shutting off street scenes and sounds from Harvard's famed Yard. Rather than literally wall off the Yard from Harvard Square and adjacent streets, which might give "appearance of monastic or snobbish seclusion," plans were drawn for a fringe of small dormitories between the present buildings and the fence surrounding the Yard, combined with a new bursar's building, to be called the Counting House. The first of these buildings to rise will be the Counting House, at the southwest corner of the Yard, on the site of Dane Hall; two dormitories flanking Holden Chapel; a dormitory between Matthews Hall and the west fence. Said the Crimson, undergraduate paper: "The idea ... is almost certain to arouse student opposition from at least a portion of the undergraduate body. It is new. It is sudden . . . hallowed ground. So away with it. . . . However, the idea rather grows on one."