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...Corliss is not the only one who mans the entrance to Lamont; students and other Harvard employees also work there, primarily on weekends and at night. He is, however, the "nice old man" most students expect to see when they enter Lamont...
...does much more than just check cards and books. Corliss probably dispenses as much information as the office in Holyoke Center: everything, he says, from how to get to the airport to whether a building belongs to Harvard or Radcliffe. In a whisper, he tells a fairly constant stream of women the combination to the locked ladies' room. His cubicle serves as a storage area for students' personal belongings, "especially around Christmas, when everyone's carrying lots of packages." When it suddenly rains and you've forgotten your umbrella, he cheerily dispenses plastic bags so at least your 20-page...
...Corliss taught school in Boston after his graduation from Harvard 51 years ago. "When I retired I didn't want to sit and watch the grass grow, and I didn't want a headache job," he explained. He came to Lamont eight years ago, and now works a tolerable 25 hours each week...
...Corliss insists he really does know everyone he lets through without asking for Harvard identification. "We know most of them by sight.... The ones you get to know are the ones who don't just come in at the change of classes. Sometimes the girls will fool you--they come in with different hairdos, say you always used to know them, but you don't--so I ask for their cards anyway...
Lamont has required users to show their bursar's cards for only the past four years. "We used to have trouble with outside people who came in from the Square," Corliss says. "We couldn't ask them for I.D. if we asked no one else. Now, if they don't begin to reach for their cards, we ask for them...