Forum Discusses Graduate Center, College Buildings

Harkness Commons has two serving lines so it will not resemble an army chow line, students learned at a Dunster House Forum last night. The choice between two food lines breaks veterans' associations with the old army life and avoids crowding, architects felt when they designed the Hall.

Albert Bush-Brown, a member of the Society of Fellows, discussed the Center during his part of a forum on "Problems of College Architecture." Other speakers at the forum were John Coolidge '35, director of Fogg Museum, and Professor Kenneth Conant '15 who discussed the history of Harvard's architecture.

One defense of the Graduate Center's modern design, Bush-Brown said, is that it carries out President Conant's educational theories. Conant advocates learning from experience, not books. Graduate students' rooms contain so little book space that the students are forced to resort to experience as their teacher. Also, students' rooms are too small to use for anything but studying, so they have to move out for social activities.