Word: lamonte
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According to both Gello and Bartley, her new job will be a day shift in Lamont Library—a position similar to the one for which she had applied...
Beyond the stage, his antics have ranged from walking out of exams screaming to making loud pronouncements in the strictly-silent Lamont Reading Room. When the time came to take his final for Social Analysis 36, “Religion and Modernization: Cultural Revolutions and Secularism,” he donned a red robe and sandals, glided into the exam room, and proclaimed to the assembled test takers the end of secularization in grand style...
Harvard has come a long way, she says, since the days when she was an assistant professor at the University but couldn’t enter Lamont to check the reserve shelf for her courses. At the time, she wasn’t allowed to walk through the front door of the Faculty Club (not that it ever stopped her, she laughs: “I figured if I was going to have to go, I’d go through the front door, and nobody ever said a word, even though I was clearly flouting...
...answer, in most cases, probably isn’t very profound. The moments of genuine educational value were few and far between. Sure, you learned a few things—perhaps, in your case, they were intermediate Sanskrit, the wisdom of not leaving your laptop unguarded in Lamont and the knowledge that it is possible, albeit painful, to shotgun a beer with your toes. But these jewels of enrichment were connected by miles and miles of paper clip-chain crap. “Joe Millionaire” taught you nothing of value. The vegetarian meatball tragedies taught you nothing...
...always somehow wracked with little pains of annoyance. I remember nights in Lamont, looking up to see one of my sweaters, stretched over a roommate’s larger shoulders, wandering out to the e-mail terminals. And I can’t even begin to recount the number of cheap-o drug store items—the Jane glittery cosmetics and plasticy bangle jewelry—that have disappeared into the black holes that seem to exist in every female-only room I’ve ever populated at this campus...