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...Lamont Could Be New Bomb Shelter...
...tend to forget our place in the University's history. We know Harvard as it is, but none of us know Harvard as it used to be. None of us were here when Harvard's football team won its last national championship; none of us were here when Lamont Library went co-ed; none of us were here when students charged into University Hall...
Several thousand people could be crowded into the bowels of Lamont in the event of an air raid, Keyes D. Metcalf, director of the University Library, told The Crimson last night. "It would be pretty stuffy," he admitted, "but it could be done...
Being the smart cookies that we are, there can be no disputing that Harvard students should be the most inventive procrastinators around. We should find no scheme too outrageous to imagine or too elaborate to execute, provided that it keeps us as far away from the interior of Lamont as possible. But if creativity has gone the way of your clean underwear and you find yourself succumbing too often to the usual suspects--namely Brain Break and the Grille--fear not. A new diversionary tactic has hit the scene, and it's all but guaranteed to waste hours and hours...
...sparkling and different and bright. (The B’s go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i’s.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz’s fallacies with their mothers. They often get A’s too, but as Mr. Carswell points out, this takes too long. There are other ways...