"For classrooms and meeting rooms especially, we must capture every square inch so that we avoid too much running to and fro, particularly between classes and for student functions," Knowles writes.
Few space-hungry student groups seem aware of Hemenway's relative availability, however. Even Samuel C. Cohen '00, who headed the Undergraduate Council's space task force, said he was completely unaware that the Law School has no official claims to Hemenway.
But he said the space would make a perfect student center--"gorgeous, and at the same time very close."
"I'm a fan of giving student space just about anywhere we can scrounge it up," he said.
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Harvard even went so far as to present a Hemenway renovation proposal to Cambridge Historical Commission in a 1998 informational meeting.
But while Harvard's representative at the meeting told the commission that Harvard would "probably return" that May with a formal application, Harvard never came back.
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