Word: lamonts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Undergraduates pled while library officials shook their heads and muttered arguments which ranged from poverty to Massachusetts laws for working girls. The extension of Lamont Library hours seemed impossible; inadequate freshman study conditions and over-crowed House libraries seemed a permanent complaint...
...University cannot meet certain significant challenges. The dormitories are greatly overcrowded, many lecture rooms are bulging, and laboratory space is inadequate. The cost of new Houses merely to alleviate the present room shortage is staggering, and a campaign for funds to build enough new Houses, classrooms, laboratories, and another Lamont, would absorb the University's energies for at least the next ten years. Most crucial and important of all, the enrollment of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is growing smaller as fewer high-quality students choose the low-paid teaching profession...
Levin said the council had appointed a committee to study the library problem, which will consider any further recommendations about Lamont hours. "But," Levin stated, "nobody knows right now what the University intends...
...student council last night refused to endorse a Freshman Union Committee proposal to keep Lamont open until 12:10 a.m. on weekdays...
Council President Allan B. Levin '56, said the plan, which would have staffed Lamont with volunteer freshmen after 10 p.m. was defeated because "the University was unwilling to entrust a six million dollar library to freshmen," and because the reports of the 1958 Union Committee and the council's library committee indicated there might not be sufficient use of Lamont after...