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There now seems to be no reason for the library administrators to fulfill their promise and end the arrangement on Sunday. In fact, there is more reason than ever to allow Cliffies to use Lamont...
They've been letting Cliffies into Lamont for close to two weeks now and lo! the hallowed walls have not fallen. In fact, the short tenure of emergency coeducation in Lamont has accomplished what years of verbiage could not -- proven, once and for all, that people can study for Harvard degrees in a heterosexual library...
...Hilles's location should relieve Harvard men of what seems to have been their chief grounds for barring Cliffies: the fear that the girls, like locusts, will descend at 9 p.m. to pick reserve book shelves clean. It would be a rare Cliffies who would choose to trudge to Lamont just to get a book when a much more attractive building sat just a few steps outside her door. Nor would Cliffies be likely to brave the snows of January reading period to crowd the boys out of their accustomed carrels...
Letting girls stay in Lamont would work no hardship on the boys (who are, after all, free to use Hilles if they should be passing by), and would be one less inconvenience for Cliffies. The administrators merely have to view what was an emergency measure as an experiment--one that has succeeded...
Alevizos doubted that the girls' presence for two weeks would cause a serious strain on either Lamont's space or supply of reserve books. "If we thought that, we wouldn't have opened it up," he declared. Girls will be allowed to use all the facilities in the building, though Alevizos stressed that the library is open primarily for reserve books...