HILLES BLUES

To the Editors of The Crimson:

The use of the new Science Center for undergraduate teaching and laboratory work is something the entire Harvard community should welcome. Its lecture room facilities are excellent, its laboratories are modern and functional and its library with trained science librarians will be of great help to all students and teachers. Well, almost all.

It so happens that the large number of students taking sciences who are residents of the Radcliffe Houses have been left with few or no science books at Hilles. These have now been transferred to the Science Center Library.

Our library, which fulfills the important function of serving the Quad residents by avoiding long walks down to Lamont or Widener -- and now the Science Center -- has always had reserve books of the most important science courses at the University. This year it doesn't. Neither does it have a good reference section in Biology, chemistry, Physics or any of the other sciences.

As great as the advantages are of having centralized the sciences at Harvard, it doesn't justify draining Hilles of science books and putting a burden on the Radcliffe residents.

We therefore urge -- as a temporary measure -- that all reserve collections should be returned to Hilles as soon as possible, before too much of the semester progresses. And all reference science books should also be returned as soon as this becomes feasible. Science Tutors of the Radcliffe Houses:   Jorge Goldstein, South House, Chemistry   Charles Lerman, North House, Chemistry   Judith W. Lerman, North House, Chemistry   Leroy G. Wade, Jr. North House, Chemistry   Michael Madison, Currier House, Biology   Julian G. Blake, South House, Physics