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Harvard has decided to build a huge underground library structure between Houghton and Lamont to head off rapidly growing shortages of library space...
...major reasons for building the library addition beneath the surface was the desire to preserve the green courtyard between Lamont and Houghton. But construction of the underground structure will be done by excavation rather than tunnelling, so the courtyard will temporarily be torn...
...luck. In a sprightly opinion, U.S. District Judge Marvin Frankel sympathized with Lamont but dismissed his suit. The state's revenue-raising technique "may not be the most inspired kind of government function," said Frankel, but "the information sold is not vital or intimate. It is, moreover, in the category of 'public records,' available to anyone upon demand." The court really ought not to intrude in this area, he went on, since "there is no invidious discrimination, no problem of a wrong unreachable at the polls, no suggestion of an affliction confined to a relatively helpless minority...
They do, of course, in a concrete sense. Harvard is here, population changed but not very much diminished, business as usual in the Union and Lamont, "winter" students occupying their Eliot House suites, plays on the Loeb mainstage, presses running at the CRIMSON. But they see Harvard as one who stops at Churchill Downs in December and then says he has seen the Kentucky Derby...
...borrow, if I may, a few words from the CRIMSON article of April 27: "....They are everywhere. Walk into Lamont and you see three of four of them, hands tracing large 'S' patterns with their fingers down the pages. And there are many more to come...