New Building Will Occupy Kirkland Site

A center for the Behavorial Sciences now in the planning stage will replace Randall Hall and the University Press on Kirkland Street, Robert W. White, chairman of the Social Relations Department, has revealed.

In choosing the Kirkland location, White said, the members of the Department rejected an area between Dunster and Holyoke Streets in what will be the scondary construction stage of the new Medical Center. They turned down the Dunster Street site because "we couldn't fit into it very well." In its design as an office building, "there will be no spaces large enough for seminar rooms," White pointed out.

The group must receive permission from the Corporation before arranging for preliminary drawings of the new structure which will house both the Social Relations and Psychology Departments. "The Corporation will probably be quite willing to let us do it," White added.

$4 Million Allowance

The proposed allowance for a Behavioral Sciences Center in the Program for Harvard College was originally $4,000,000. White said that about $2,000,000 would probably go into the construction, while the remainder might take the form of an endowment to be used for maintenance.

The Kirkland site figured in the initial plans for the Center. The space in the Medical Center was only an alternate suggestion, White stated. The present decision represents "what we thought we were going to do at this time last year."