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...When Lamont first opened its doors in January 1949, it was an immediate sensation because of the unique appearance of its physical plant. Hopes for the future and its hypothetical standing as a model undergraduate library were bruited about, but it was the miles of fluorescent lights, the cork floors, the little holes in the ceiling and its general glass-place appearance that made an immediate...
...editorial marking the opening of the library, the CRIMSON repeated the old story of the man who went through four years of Harvard without ever stepping into Widener, heartily praised the air-conditioned heaven of Lamont, and ended with a declaration that the new library was not deserving of the same fate...
...past five years some of the enthusiasm for blonde wood and plate glass has evaporated, and unfortunately for Lamont, its machine-like, often submarine atmosphere has proved the main deterrent to its complete popularity. Nevertheless, by and large, the story of these five years is a success story...
...history of Lamont's successes and failures to date does not lie in an enumeration of specific events or accomplishments as much as in the position it has come to occupy in the mind of the undergraduate. With the possible exceptions of Eliot House, Cronin's, and the General Education program, Lamont is the butt of more jokes and the locale of more stories than any other Harvard institution. Whether he loves it or loathes it, almost every student is acutely aware of it. In its first five years it has become a legend...
...hope that it would make the students aware of books, and although the positive personality of the building itself sometimes overclouds the significance of its contents, it has made an impression that Widener never could have. The older building represents the abstract idea of the great library; Lamont is its working avatar...