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...morning of Jan. 3, 1949, Lamont Library opened its doors for the first time. The building had taken two years and $2.5 million to construct, which apparently went to good use—on the day of Lamont??€™s ribbon-cutting ceremony, The Crimson bragged that the box-like red-brick structure set a “new mark in functional design...
...library, which had first taken form in the minds of Boston architect Henry R. Shepley, class of 1910, and Harvard University Library Director Keyes D. Metcalf more than a decade earlier, charted new pedagogical territory: It was the first in the United States designed specifically for undergraduate use. Lamont??€™s open alcoves, innovative (for its time) card-catalog system, and plentiful reading rooms made it particularly well-suited to house the academic endeavors of Harvard College’s industrious student body. Contemporary observers were so impressed that local businesses took special efforts to highlight their association with...
...course, it is ironically also one that Lamont??€™s denizens perpetrate incessantly. As the library’s detractors are quick to note, the cavernous ceilings and high windows of the Ginsberg Reading Room bear witness to more chatter than study—a problem that only grows worse in the Café, which is, truth be told, less a social space within a library than a social space within a social space...
...library and the community it sustains emerge in response to the central anxiety of Harvard life: the failure to measure up. Under Lamont??€™s 24-hour fluorescent lighting, no one need bear this ponderous burden alone...
...Offer your seat. Pregnant people take up a lot of space with their huge bellies and piles of textbooks. Now that you're done, free up some space in Lamont??€”why sit there guiltlessly checking Facebook when you could be taking the first of those trips to Boston you always said you'd make when you came to Harvard...