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Speaking with two other University professors at the Harvard Young Republican Club forum last night in the Lamont Forum Room, Holcombe explained, "Polls of congressmen indicated a fairly consistent consideration of this issue. Polls of voters, moreover, have shown this to be the prime subject upon which the government must take a stand. With our breaking down of parties, the results of polls of voters will be important in determining election platforms...
...digging deeper, they bring up Alger Hiss or Harry Dexter White, he can counter with James B. Conant, Edwin Colu, Christian Herter, Leveret Saltonstall, Percy Bridgeman, Franklin Roosevelt, Sinclair Weeks and Thomas Lamont. The University is not deficient on this score...
...axiomatic that Lamont is bare for three fall months and then densely populated for a few weeks at the end of the term. Library officials recognize this fact and the student is painfully aware of it. Equally established a truth is the student's annoyance with the 10 p.m. closing hour. Working from these two premises, once could expect a logical conclusion from Lamont officials. For five years, this conclusion has not been forthcoming; Lamont retains its early closing time and hustles the student out at 9:50 p.m. with buzzers and darkness...
...contrast with Princeton's Firestone Library should be a little embarrassing to local librarians. Princetonians can study undisturbed until 12:00 midnight every week night. And, though Lamont officials claim these extended hours would be disastrous financially, Princeton has found little extra expense. The Nassau equivalent of Desk Three is closed at 10 p.m. So that only the expense of a checker at the door adds to operating costs. These extra few dollars are well justified by the increased convenience to students. And while Lamont can point to the House libraries which are open until midnight, during the exam period...
...permanent extension of hours, they cannot deny that it would be welcome during reading and exam period. At the beginning of the next term, the hours' change could be provisional, depending on the number who continue to study past 10 p.m. For the crowded, hectic weeks ahead at Lamont, however, the extension would be a necessary boon to the undergraduate...