Today, Harvard is planning to built 50 units of affiliate housing and ground level retail space at the corner of Mt. Auburn and Banks Streets. A noticable departure from Pusey-era architecture, tentative plans for the proposed structure at 8:10 Mt. Mt. Auburn St. call for a return to the traditional Georgian Revival style. That is, if the community allows Harvard proceed.

Reunion Verdict

Many members of the Harvard Class of '60 came back to Cambridge for the first time in 25 years yesterday and were amazed with the transformation of the University and the surrounding area. For the most part, however, most of the Eisenhower-era graduates were placed with the changes they saw.

"The uniform architecture at most major universities is boring," said Samuel A. Halaby '60 of Rochester, N.Y. "Without getting philosophical, the diversity of this architecture reflects the diversity of [Harvard's] student body."

Commenting on how he thanks Harvard Square itself has become a major metropolitan area since he was at the College, former Elsot House resident Ralph D. Goldenberg '60 remembers when Mass. Ave, was a two-way street. "But it's still," he says.

But several alumni were less than satisfied with buildings added to the core campus in the past several decades, calling them everything from "surrealistic" to "less romantic."

"If Lowell House became the norm for those buildings to be judged, then all the rest can crumble and fall apart," said Thomas M. Brown who compared the interior of Crimson Hall--where he is staying--to Walpole prison.

New York residents Ward Smiths '60, whose son will be a sophomore next fall, seemed to put it all in perceptive. "Just because it was right a quarter of a century ago doesn't mean it should be that way in perpetuity. If Harvard was like it was in 1636 we'd be having lunch in a cowfield and going to a privy.