Word: lamont
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...Women had moved into Harvard classrooms in 1943, but it wasn’t until 1967 that they were allowed in Lamont Library. By 1970 Harvard and Radcliffe had held their first joint Commencement ceremony, and in a 1971 “non-merger merger” agreement, Harvard absorbed responsibility for Radcliffe’s finances. In 1975, for the first time, admissions officers began admitting female students to both Harvard and Radcliffe. And in 1977, Harvard officially took full responsibility for women’s undergraduate education and student life...
...sparkling and different and bright. (The B’s go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i’s.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz’s fallacies with their mothers. They often get A’s too, but as Mr. Carswell points out, this takes too long. There are other ways...
Additionally, Lamont University Professor Emeritus John T. Dunlop will serve as a senior adviser...
...Board of Overseers convened in Lamont Library to hear a presentation on a new interdisciplinary degree program. Shortly before lunch, they filed the short distance to Loeb House for another event: an update on the presidential search. Now Stone and the rest of the committee had nine names to present. Fineberg, Bollinger, Sullivan, Summers, Gutmann, and four others. The next day, committee members crossed the river and met with Clark in his business school office, breaking the news to him that he was no longer under consideration...
Harvard’s libraries are often a respite for the academically attention-challenged. Lamont Library’s cushy chairs are often invitations to a good dream while the Cabot Science Library is a sterile and work-oriented spot. Widener Library’s endless stacks were once dark and quiet-conditions that helped make “sex in the stacks” a Harvard tradition. Newly installed motion detectors are forcing students to exercise their brains instead. Another study related tradition is primal scream, a naked run that ritually occurs on the last night before finals begin...