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Over 150 tape recordings of modern poetry readings and criticism may be available to students at the opening of the 1952 Summer School session, Phillip J. McNiff, Assistant in Charge of Lamont Library, said yesterday...
...Lamont inserted the wedge, the Graduate Center widened the gap. Now that Burr has crept right in, the University can boast that it still points the way in education by absorption...
Heading the list are Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, Dean David, and Associate Dean Teele. They will debate Slichter's theory that the American standard of living has doubled every forty years for the past century...
...Radcliffe girls study harder than Harvard men? Perhaps not, but statistics show that over the weekend at the peak of exam period, the girls took out approximately 1000 reserve books from the Radcliffe Library, to the 3000 circulated by Lamont. This means that the girls borrowed more than one book each, while not even every student at Harvard took out a book. The usual number of reserve books taken out of Radcliffe, however, runs about 3500 a month...
According to Ruth Porritt, the head librarian, the biggest problem the library has is getting the books girls want when they want them. If a book is required for a course and the library does not own it, the book is borrowed from Lamont or Widener and is made available to the girls at their own library for a limited time. If a book is suggested, an attempt will be made to borrow it. Widener cards are issued only to undergraduates who are working for honors. Girls who do not need to use Widener for reference are not encouraged...