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...suit filed in a federal district court, the SEC alleged that Harvard Fellow Thomas S. Lamont '21, a director of Texas Gulf and also of the Morgan Guaranty Trust, informed one of the bank's other officers of the discovery. Then, this man bought 8000 shares of Texas Gulf for the bank's clients, the SEC charged...
However, the SEC suit said that of the 13 men, Lamont was the only one not to profit personally from the information...
...Lamont, whose father helped finance the University's main undergraduate library, has been a member of the Corporation--which includes the five Fellows, Harvard's President and Treasurer--since 1952. The Corporation holds deed to all the University's lands and must approve the budgets of the College and all the graduate schools...
...however, Theodore G. Alevizos, Assistant Librarian for Undergraduate Services, affirmed his earlier statement that "we do not intend to make Lamont wide open to girls." He admitted that the fifth level, closed to girls, does house such an exhibit...
Most of the books exhibited, taken straight from the shelves of Lamont, were apparently chosen to justify the library's ban on women. The Useless Sex. The Anti-Sex. The Subjection of Women, and All Women are Fatal are prominently displayed. One of the cases contains on edition of Pierre de Bourdeille's. The Lives of Gallant Ladies, suggestively opened to "Fourth Essay--On Married Women, Widows and Girls to ascertain which class of them is botter in love than the others...