But one first-year, who said it had taken him about 40 minutes to make it to the middle of the long line, said he felt like throwing in the towel.

"I'm saying we should just go back and forget about Harvard," said Erik E. Amblad '98. "Forty minutes--it's just not worth it."

Georgene B. Herschbach, registrar of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, said yesterday her office met in a special session Monday morning to address the problems with the relocation of registration to Memorial Hall.

"We figured out ways of increasing the ways students are moving through the building," Herschbach said.

"This morning we actually met for about one hour and a half to think anew about upperclass registration," she said.

Herschbach said she will employ more people and place them strategically in order to avoid bottlenecks.

"In the second half of the registration period we actually moved about half of the freshman class," Herschbach said. "It's inevitable that we would have some startup problems in a transition like this."