BUT WE'RE ON OUR WAY

As inhabitants in the general region of the Charles are well aware, construction is busily proceeding on at least one unit of the new House. Plan. Just across the way, legal considerations have prevented progress beyond a some-what insubstantial looking little brick wall. Of the ultimate appearance of either building the great mass of Harvard men know nothing. The difficulties confronting the completion of the one unit have served to prevent the release of information regarding the other. This situation is somewhat hard to explain on any grounds other than the usual promptness of the University authorities to snatch at any consideration which will appear to excuse them from the obligation of releasing perfectly legitimately desired information.

The fact that no large group of people are responsible for the funds used in the realization of the House Plan may be thought in a sense to remove all technical necessity for the detailed promulgation of the plans for the individual units. But after all, Harvard men both present and prespective have a desire to know how the Harvard of the future is going to look and to be allowed a chance to comment upon it before all possibility of revision is closed. While satisfaction for this desire may not, in a legal sense, be demanded as right, a larger view of the situation places their interest above the category of a mere privilege to be granted or refused at the will of those in authority.

Early last winter, it is true, a general bird's-eye view of the prospective plan was offered for the inspection of interested persons, but since then much more definite plans have been drawn which have not been made public. That these drawings must contain much that would be generally interesting and enlightening is not to be doubted. Practical considerations also would seem to dictate that those directly responsible should take the rest of Harvard into their confidence if only as a sop to that militant class of persons who enjoy the making of caustic post facto comments when they feel that they have been denied an even passive participation in the proceedings.