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...wouldn’t say that it’s one type of person. We don’t profile at Lamont...
...Lamont, a sign reads, “It may seem like studying to you but it’s murder for Harvard’s books.” Yet, it seems that students here think they are above the law. They eat Boca burgers and make O.J. Simpson jokes at dinner, then go slay Simon and Schuster for dessert. I sat down with Student Circulation Desk Assistant Stevie N. DeGroff ’06 to discuss Harvard’s untold genocide...
...Libraries are supposed to be for quiet study, so why is it impossible to accomplish anything in Lamont? Perhaps the fact that you plan field-trips there with your 25 closest friends may have something to do with it. If your studying (read: gossiping) session can’t live up to its creative potential elsewhere, be sure to use a small voice when discussing what a small, um, “pen” that guy at the next table has—otherwise, he’ll probably hear...
...Street, its layered staircases as complex as those in an Escher engraving; the way the low-slung Scandinavian Modern chairs bear mismatched cushions, piled in quixotic efforts to render them more comfortable; the way that you can claim entire floors for yourself—an impossibility in densely-peopled Lamont. I love that someone had a modernist vision so complete that the furnishings and even stacks echo the architecture. I love that this vision was not entirely practical. Officeholders mosaic their sterile doors with photographs in an effort to humanize them. Librarians look cowed by the empty space surrounding them...
...course, that retaining a shrine to impracticality is—well—impractical. But I had long thought of Hilles as a refuge among Harvard libraries. The guards at Houghton all but frisk you when you emerge from viewing its rare books, Widener is haunted by scowling academes, Lamont is crowded with a Boschian assortment of your drowsing or deadline-crazed classmates—but Hilles remains a place apart, the ex-hipster aunt whom you seek out at Thanksgiving because you know she alone will refrain from asking you about how school is going and exactly what...