Word: lamont
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...downright harrowing, time-consuming experience. Before you are allowed to return to the lively world outside the somber library, the book-checkers force you to open each pocket of your (often multi-pocketed) bag to look for library materials. The recent announcement of a pilot program to keep Lamont open 24 hours a day shows that the Harvard College Library (HCL) system is attempting to serve student needs. Yet one student need that HCL has continued to neglect is the need to get out of the library, quickly and without a hassle—that is, without the time-consuming...
...Although some consider the search a minor nuisance not worth the trouble to repeal, small comforts can greatly increase the benefit students reap. The relatively minor renovation of the fifth floor of Lamont transformed it from a barren studying-Siberia deserted by students to a flourishing study space...
Then I noticed Lamont A. James ’08. Clad in a yellow t-shirt, standard-issue Harvard lanyard hanging from his neck, the Canaday resident was playing a video game (“Perfect Dark”) by himself...
...higher percentage of girls in higher education may also be linked to discrimination against men on the high school level, said Professor of Sociology Michèle Lamont...
...factor is that, in general, teachers at the high school level tend to be tougher on boys than they are on girls,” Lamont said. “Minority boys who come to school in hip-hop fashion are more likely to be perceived as disruptive. Teachers’ perceptions of codes of femininity lead them to reinforce academic achievement for girls...