"special deconversion" -individual instances in which extra people had to be taken out of suites, incurring a loss of 45 spaces.
Completing the Administration's problem, John D. Hanify 71, president of the Harvard Undergraduate Council, asked the emergency meeting to postpone this year's $60 board increase to compensate students for their inconvenience.
To alleviate part of the overcrowding, two graduate school dormitories-Conant and Perkins Halls- may take 24 students until Mather House opens next term.
But the bulk of overflow may go off campus. Traditionally tight off-campus quotas have been extended in almost all houses and Watson has consented to allow some "extra sophomores" to move off also.
Last night, however, Alan E. Heimert, Master of Eliot House, expressed the hope that the problem could be solved without kicking students out of their houses.
"I think it's going to be licked; it's not as freaky a problem as the numbers originally indicated. But we have a moral obligation to the city of Cambridge not to send these people out searching for apartments, and we have to find them places even if we have to hire hotel rooms."