McGeorge Bundy begins his new career in Washington today as special assistant to President Kennedy for national security affairs.

Already established with a desk in the old State Department building, Bundy counter-parted to four out-going officials during the transition period.

In a press conference Friday the former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences commented on what he would hope to find at the University if he retuned "in eight wars." A new House, a center for married graduate students, a center for area studies, a new science laboratory, and "better physical arrangements for elements of the Freshmen class" were among the physical changes he foresaw.

"The area for greatest change," he said, "is in what is called self-instruction," utilizing methods not now completely defined but possibly along the lines of language laboratories, Professor B. F. Skinner's teaching machines, and "extension and refinement of methods included in freshman seminars."

Bundy expressed his hope that the University "will continue to be a place where these possibilities are synthetically explored and not a place which leaves these jobs to other institutions."

Warning against separating the functions of Harvard into terms of research-versus-teaching or of education-versus-investigation, Bundy urged that it "continue its remarkable lively interest in the next important thing."

One of Bundy's first duties in Washington will be to consider recommendations of a staff report to a Senate subcommittee on the reorganization of the National Security Council.

Bundy will be secretary to the Council, responsible for preparing its agenda and coordinating the activities of its planning and operations coordinating boards. In his post Bundy will be concerned primarily with matters of national security and foreign affairs, and will be closely involved with intelligence operations.