Word: lamontism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Emeritus, backed Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, and the late Summer H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, favored Nelson A. Rockefeller...
Edward L. Croman '60, president, termed the approval of the library report "merely formal" since most of the committee's proposals have already been adopted by Lamont officials...
Librarians are traditionally a stodgy lot. The faculty committee on Libraries, however, deserves commendation for breaking tradition and imposing a three-hour limit on the circulation of Lamont closed research books. Come Reading Period, the glorious era of hidden volumes and missing books may be ended. Desks will no longer provide a sanctuary for reserve volumes; with Bursar's card checks, the invading hordes from neighboring colleges will be eliminated...
...Committee disregarded the most important suggestion made by a special Student Council group. A great many people hide books and keep them out of circulation simply because they do not wish to study in Lamont. The buzzing lights, the oft-inadequate ventilation, and the noise and crowding of Reading Period make the building undesirable for concentrated work...
Reserve books should circulate outside Lamont to make the new three-hour system fully effective. At Radcliffe, such a system has operated with great success--and without the loss of books the Faculty Committee evidently fears. Unless books can be removed from the building, Lamont will remain an overgrown study hall--which Harvard should have outgrown...