Word: lamont
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...Needless to say, I was surprised,” Baran said. “You assume a lot of things based on what people are doing. I saw him on campus, and in Lamont, and I didn’t think to ask him, are you really a student? He always presented himself as a Harvard student...
...examples are seemingly endless: the new pub in Loker Commons, the creation of the Lamont Library Café, the renovation of the Mather and Dunster dining halls, and the creation of a new dance center when the old one was shut down. All of these major student life initiatives were on the brink of doom or significant delay because of the whim of one person—the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...library on the ground floor of the Littauer building will close to users as it prepares to become the home of art books displaced by the renovation of the Fogg Museum. Many of the staff and services now located in Littauer will move to the first floor of Lamont Library, which will undergo renovation this summer to accommodate the change. Littauer’s holdings, which contain materials on economics and government as well as many historical labor papers, will mostly be placed in the off-campus Harvard Depository.Littauer, which until now held much of Harvard’s social...
...example, former President Lawrence H. Summers recognized these structural obstacles to improving the undergraduate experience using traditional means—and so he chose to fund the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub and Lamont Café with his own discretionary fund. While we hope Faust will continue to take bold steps such as these in helping undergraduates, we hope that a more long-term, structural change can be made to lessen the need for temporary allocations of the discretionary budget...
...Queen’s Head will be a pleasant counterpoint to the orgiastic, fluorescent bear-pit that is the Lamont Café. Hopefully, it will obtain the Café’s popularity while sustaining the grandfatherly allure of the fifth floor’s Farnsworth Room—the last of the great laptop-free zones...