Word: lamonts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole the weather was typical of Cambridge: it managed to rain pretty regularly on Saturdays, but a dry January made tradging to Lamont almost bearable. The bad beginning didn't make for for a bad ending, and anyway spring is almost here...
Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, said yesterday the American system of industrial relations "would probably not work anywhere else but it gives the American worker better protection and it puts American employers under greater pressure. . . to raise productivity...
Preliminary results from a study of the effects of Lamont's plan of heavier fines, imposed first last year, show a decrease in books returned late from 15 percent to this year's figure of eight percent of all reserve books circulated. McNiff said only one and one-half percent were returned more than a day late...
Besides the system of levying heavy fines, Lamont can withdraw Library privileges of a student consistently disregards its rules. Some lateness is excused for sickness of other reasons, McNiff said. "But one boy who kept out a reserve book despite repeated calls for two weeks was treated severely. He was fined $16 and not allowed to purchase the book...
...When Lamont first opened it imposed no fines, either for reserved or non-reserved books, McNiff said. Because students returned the reserve books late, however, fines had to be imposed...