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Both Yale and Princeton have recognized the need for providing freshmen and upperclassmen with late study facilities. Their main libraries are open until midnight every day except Saturday although circulation desks close at an earlier hour. Officials at Harvard have frequently expressed doubt that undergraduates would use Lamont after ten. At Yale and Princeton, the head librarians have expressed surprise at the large number of students who study from ten until midnight...
Because of the University's reluctance to extend Lamont's hours, Harvard students have often been content with requesting a comfortable, well-lighted study hall far different from the one in Memorial Church basement. The Union and Sever have often been on the list of possible locations. It is extremely doubtful, however, that a study hall of any variety would solve the problem. Lamont is the ideal place for freshmen to study. Thus, students will remain there as long as possible and, after eviction, return to the chaos of their dorms...
...Lamont is the logical solution to the freshman study problem, and it need not be so expensive a solution as library officials have in the past maintained. If the Lamont circulation desk were closed at 10 p.m., a very few staff members could operate Lamont from the exits alone, in much the same way that Widener is operated at night...
...library aften ten. Many trustworthy and capable students are available who would welcome an opportunity to work for two hours in the late evening. Since the circulation desk would be closed, such student librarians would require very little training. With co-operation from those using the late hours, Lamont should run as smoothly as at any other time...
Problems exist for the University in extending the Library's hours from 75 to 85 each week, but they should not be insoluble ones. Lamont Library has always attempted to serve the needs of the undergraduate community. With present overcrowding and increased reading, one of the most pressing needs is longer study hours...