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...That sentiment is hardly new: in 1944, Dean of the Faculty Paul H. Buck solicited professors’ opinions on the Overseers’ visiting committees. As Morton and Phyllis Keller describe in their book “Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America’s University,” Buck’s findings were far from promising: “complete indifference.... The function has sunk to so low a repute that few believe anything can be done with the device...
...scholarship aid. We approved the extension of the Lamont Library hours to midnight. But we were sorry to see that the Student Council, which usually spends much of its time agreeing with the administration, thought that extension of Lamont hours was unnecessary—just one week before Librarian Buck announced the change. It seems the Council jumped on the wrong wave of history this time and got caught in the backwash. Under the leadership of their new Master and their Senior Tutor, the men at Kirkland House were experimenting. Early in the fall they began a tutorial program...
...Metcalf, Harvard’s top librarian until 1955. But Lamont also owes credit to the educational philosophy of Metcalf’s time, embodied by the famous “Red Book” of 1943. Written by a group of faculty led by Provost Paul H. Buck and President James B. Conant ’13, the “Red Book” declared the high purpose of a 20th Century undergraduate education: Harvard must not just teach skills but also civic character, moral temerity, and—above all—an undying commitment to finding...
...years later, Buck spoke at Lamont’s grand opening. “Harvard, like the world at large,” Buck said, “has been a battle-ground between good and evil. Our better selves have cherished freedom...and have sought its advancement.” Lamont Library was not just one arm of a research institution, it was one arm of a greater mission: the search for truth, and the commitment to building a better world...
...caption in the 1956 Yearbook noted, “Paul Buck brought Lamont two hours closer to the ideal library that never closes...