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...early days of Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre live again each day at Lamont when the tall, distinguished-looking professor with the shock of gray hair, the shaggy eyebrows, the searching blue eyes and the soft accent begins to lecture. Denis Johnston, visiting professor of Modern Irish Literature, wrote plays for the Abbey during the exciting years when its opening nights made news around the world...
...regard to the rest of the summer term, Wood said it would be financially impossible this year to extend the weekend hours of either library. The personnel and other costs of keeping a place like Lamont open just will not allow it under the present scale of tuition charges, he added...
...present, Lamont closes for the weekend at 5:30 p.m. Friday, and Widener at 1 p.m. Saturday. Complaining students have made it plain that they would prefer air-conditioned Lamont as a location for weekend study. They have also pointed out that the dormitories are usually too hot and noisy for comfortable studying...
...present discussion over Summer School library hours is reminiscent of a debate that often arises during the winter term of Harvard College. After repeated demands that Lamont stay open later on weekdays, weekends, and especially before exam periods, students last winter won the concession that the library would extend its hours to midnight every week-night and 2 to 10 p.m. on Sundays...
Accentuating the summer complaints, presumably, is the fact that in July and August Lamont is not restricted to allmale use, as it is during the less congenial winter months...