Word: lamont
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...attendees of this past October’s infamous dessert riot, this Harvard Yearbook description may seem to describe Harvard College Libraries’ (HCL) decision to keep Lamont open 24 hours a day on weekdays. But this year-in-review blurb was actually written 50 years ago, celebrating a successful student campaign in 1955-6 to extend the undergraduate library’s weekday closing time from 10 p.m. to the wee hour of midnight throughout the school year...
...Much like this past year’s decision to keep Lamont open all night, the 1956 campaign was a direct result of a lack of study space for students who wished to do work after 10 p.m., according to Albert B. Levin ’56, who was the president of the Student Council...
...October 11, 1955 editorial piece in The Crimson provides the first written account of the movement to extend hours in Lamont, which first opened its doors...
...College’s student government was equally intent on solving the problem of inadequate study space. The Freshman Union Committee backed a resolution demanding a 12 a.m. closing time for Lamont, while the student council, believing that a year-round extension was unattainable, favored making permanent Lamont’s extended reading period hours, which had been established as a temporary experiment the previous year...
...October 20, 1955, University Library Director Paul H. Buck had announced his support for later hours, and by November 14, the College had announced that Lamont would stay open until midnight starting that January...