The University announced yesterday tentative plans to re-develop Boylston Hall. The century-old structure was first used as a chemistry laboratory, and until recently housed the Harvard-Yenching Institute.

In the near future, however, the building will accommodate a center for all language departments as well as other allied departments. It will include the departments which, until recently, occupied the Modern Language Center on Divinity Ave.

Dean Bundy said yesterday that the departments of Romance Languages, Slavic, Germanic, and Comparative Literature, would move into Boylston. He said that the English and Classics departments, plus the Committee on History and Literature, would also make use of the building.

Renovation of the structure will depend on city approval. As yet no architect has been selected. Interior changes will involve installation of audio-visual laboratories, meeting rooms, reading rooms, and administrative offices.

Edward J. Reynolds, Administrative Vice President, said yesterday that he hoped the altered building would include as many as six or seven floors. He stated that he did not foresee any physical alteration of the exterior of the building, except for perhaps the roof.