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...young frail looking freshman stood on the steps of Houghton Library and clutched his cop of "don Quixote" in his hand. He thought for a minute of the blaring rock and roll that his roommates were playing back at his room stared at the heavy wooden doors of the library, then pushed them open and walked inside. The attendant looked up from his desk. "Is there someplace here where I can read?" the boy asked, fingering the book in his hand...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Old Books in and Under the Yard | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...sorry," the attendant said, "the Houghton Library is for the use of scholars...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Old Books in and Under the Yard | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...myopic be expected to correct our balance of payments?" Further, a round-robin letter, sponsored by right-wing Laborites, demanded a secret ballot by Labor M.P.s to determine whether Wilson should remain as Prime Minister and party leader. In a move without precedent, Parliamentary Labor Party Chairman Douglas Houghton warned Wilson that he could push his union reform through Parliament only at the risk of blowing apart the party. At week's end, as Wilson surveyed the extent of election losses that left Labor controlling only 57 of the 542 boroughs in Britain, he could perhaps take consolation from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: The Edentulous and the Myopic | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

EDWARD LEAR, THE LIFE OF A WANDERER by Vivien Noakes. 359 pages. Houghton Miffllin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

...addition will also include more stacks and offices for Widener Library, stacks and maprooms for Houghton Library, and stacks for the Harvard University Archives. Tunnels will connect it to Widener, Houghton, and Lamont. Construction will begin next year, at the earliest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grant To Finance Theatre Library | 2/15/1969 | See Source »

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