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...over 16 spent a crowded 13 hours going to college again. Nineteen different courses, some of them as early as 9 o'clock, were open to them. The visitors then lunched in the houses as the guests of Provost Buck. In the afternoon they went on guided tours through Lamont and Houghton, built since 1928, visited the new--to them--Indoor Athletic Building to watch work out and a freshman swimming meet, then spent a pleasant evening at Lowell House listening to talks by undergraduate leaders, Provost Buck, and Dr. Perkins, not to mention the songs of the red-tied...
...earnest supporter of the intra-mural "athletics-for-all" plan despite the fact that it aids in plunging the Athletic Association deep in the red each year, and expeditiously sought a study hall for freshmen who felt discriminated against because they, unlike upperclassmen, had no studying facilities after Lamont closed. Buck found them a hall in Memorial Church. And, like the House libraries, it will be open until midnight...
Buck does not believe in activity for activity's sake, but idealizes a "living and learning' environment where the student Partakes in activities on his own initiative. "Thus instead of a required music course, you have many musical activities available, or a library like Lamont where a student read when he wants...
...remarks at the opening of Lamont Library he stressed this free access theme: "Harvard was synonymous with free minds openly browsing through all the orthodoxies and heresies of history, through good book, bad books, and mediocre books. Harvard deserved more than Virginia, the great inscription of Thomas Jefferson, 'Here we fear no heresy where truth is free to combat error.'" But he noted also contrary forces, "a clever subtile devil, appearing in devious ways." Sometimes his attack has been frontal, as "when a century age there was a restriction on anti-slavery discussion. . .or when he appeared in the guise...
Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, foresees the collapse of our foreign policy in an article in the January Atlantic Monthly...