Word: lamonte
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Francis M. Wilhoit '49, a second-semester senior at the time of Lamont's opening, shares his rather unusual story of opening day in the library's on-line memory book...
...Lamont Librarian Philip J. McNiff estimated that 7,200 curious undergraduates visited the newfangled library-only 1,000 of whom had actually come to study...
From the very start, Lamont received mixed reactions to its decor and design. Touted by many as the very best in new technology and engineered study space, the building garnered some criticism along with its praise even in the early years...
...Lamont Library is as modernistic as colored television," The Crimson opined on the library's opening...
...speech at the library's opening ceremony, President James B. Conant '14 extolled Lamont's virtues: "The conventional red tape of library bureaucracy has disappeared. The undergraduate in quest of knowledge or inspiration, whether he is self-propelled or motivated by dread of approaching examinations or papers to be written, can go directly to the shelves...