Word: lamont
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Harvard is a great place to nourish a guilty pleasure. It’s real easy: just lie to your roommate, something innocuous, like “I’m going to study in Lamont.” Then disappear for six hours of Magic: The Gathering or “Rock of Love with Bret Michaels,” shuffle back to your room bleary-eyed, and he or she will think nothing of it. What’s more, we assume that all our peers are constantly devoting themselves to the things we ourselves ought...
After months of endless lectures, being awoken by the bells of Memorial Church, and pulling all-nighters in Lamont, it is no wonder that as the past year came to a close, many Harvard freshmen were more than ready for a change...
...Harvard College Judith H. Kidd in an interview yesterday afternoon following the release of the letter. “We are not eliminating private parties in any way. We are paying a great deal of attention to students having a social life in the past few years with the Lamont Cafe, SOCH, the pub, and freshman social spaces...
...this summer, was different. A quiet advocate for undergraduates in the face of occasionally fearsome resistance from fellow administrators, Gross spent his five years at the helm assembling an impressive legacy. Beyond the physical monuments to his tenacity—the Cambridge Queen’s Head pub, the Lamont Library Café, the Student Organizations Center at Hilles, and the New College Theater—Gross presided over the most productive half-decade of curricular change in recent years...
...despite coming from the side of undergraduate education, Gross also was not the advocate for student life that many hoped he would become. While the Dean’s Fund for Undergraduate Life was used to bankroll many important student initiatives such as the Lamont Café and the Cambridge Queen’s Head, the push for and oversight of many of these projects came from others in the administration. While the primary obstacle doubtlessly was the difficulty of accessing the necessary funds, Gross could have taken a more active role as an advocate for these projects, rather than...