Word: lamont
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Back in the early '50s, Radcliffe was an institution seeminly independent of Harvard, sharing only course instruction, an economy measure forced by war-time pressures. Radcliffe women lived in the dormitories at the Radcliffe Quadrangle, obeyed strict 10 p.m. parietals, and used either the Radcliffe library or Widener, never Lamont. In Widener, they were warned not to walk down the center aisle of the reading room so as not to draw excessive attention. Many members of the Class of '54 seemed to pin their hopes on meeting and marrying a Harvard man, although The Crimson reported, in September 1951, Radcliffe...
...group, accompanied by a 15-piece marching band, marched around the Yard from Lamont Library to Johnston Gate and then into the Square...
Curtis said carpeting a building like Lamont would reduce "the liveliness" of the building's interior, adding that "noise will be 'swallowed up' by the carpeting and dissipated in the form of heat...
...article in the "Harvard Library Bulletin" discussing the opening of Lamont, one of the building's architects wrote "every effort was made to provide quiet floors and sound-absorbing ceilings...
Other students were less enthusiastic. "No matter what they do," said Joshua R.M. Korzenik '79-4, "Lamont will still be Lamont...