Tenth House Site Choice Ruled Out for This Term

President Pusey indicated yesterday that the University will have to wait at least until next fall before it can make a final decision on a location for the proposed Tenth House.

Pusey said that "no progress" has been made during the past several weeks in negotiations for land on which to build the House, and he added that he was doubtful that any progress would be made before this summer.

The lack of land has delayed construction of the new House, making it impossible to relieve overcrowding in the present Houses. Enough money to build the House has already been raised through the Program for Harvard College.

The College still hopes that the Bennett St. MTA yards will provide a site, but this possibility is so remote that no administration member realistically expects it to happen.

Another site reportedly being seriously considered is the area behind Dunster House along Cowperthwaite St. Several sources have reported that the University is trying to buy this land but is having difficulty acquiring a plot of appropriate size and shape.

The MTA yards, which were offered for public sale in December, 1962, have become embroiled in a political controversy over the proposed removal of the switching and storage facilities to Codman, Square in Dorchester. A sale in the near future is regarded as virtually impossible.

Meanwhile, the special Faculty committee on the Tenth House, which will also make suggestions for improving the existing Houses, has not met at all this spring.

Richard H. Ullman '55, Aliston Burr Senior Tutor of Lowell House and a member of the committee, said yesterday that the response to its plea for suggestions from undergraduates had been disappointing. He said suggestions should be sent to committee chairman Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, assistant dean of the Faculty for Resources and Planning, in University Hall 20.