Word: lamontism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elevators in each of the "towers" will stop only on alternate floors of suites. Interlocking stairways, like those in Lamont, will also be used. Conway hopes to devise some variation of the traditional House courtyard to give residents "something attractive to look down upon...
First, we want it to be understood that we are not bigots. We're open-minded Adams House residents in Westmorly, on Bow Street. We have Lamont, Widener, Hayes-Bickfords, the Clubs and even the I.A.B. in which to study. While this seems to be ideal, sometimes, sometimes, we find great pleasure in studying in our rooms. We enjoy talking to our room-mates, playing our hi-fi's, and wooing our women with a reasonable amount of quiet. Yes, and there are those tender moments when we wish we could forget about time. We have alarm clocks, wall clocks...
...certainly tried to give credence to the former view. Though he grouched about Joseph Dinneen's biography and Edwin O'Connor's novel, he seemed immensely to enjoy the renewed attention they brought him. He gave the books away with such genial inscriptions as may be found in Lamont's copy of The Purple Shamrock: "To Jack: From one swindler to another. Jim Curley...
...unable to qualify for Honors, others who want to avoid unnecessary undergraduate specialization, and the highly intelligent group whose orientation toward activities like theatre and writing precludes the undertaking, and often the desirability, of an Honors program. Ignoring these students would imply that the University considers lectures and Lamont a sufficient education for a sizeable number of its undergraduates...
...drops a card to his enlighteners in Cambridge. (The stamps change color, but the message remains the same.) Harvard life is otherwise very much as before. His old roommates use the percolator now, his friends have divided the records, and if interested you can find the Charles Addams on Lamont's fifth floor, forever Falstaff's favorite on campus spot...