Word: lamonts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passionate, omnivorous student of the earth's structure. He pioneered the use of shock waves to explore the ocean floor and during World War II devised a system of naval communication based on the long-range transmission of explosion waves under water. Director of Columbia University's Lamont Geological Observatory (now Lamont-Doherty) from 1949 to 1972, he logged thousands of miles aboard its research schooner Vema. In 1956 he and his colleague William Donn caused a stir with their theory that ice ages have come about cyclically and that the next supersnowfalls could be a mere...
...finally folded for lack of funds early in 1969. And the spring saw what may have been the feminist movement's first, half-joking intrusion into a Harvard still wracked by controversy over extending parietal hours on football Saturdays and not yet even seriously considering letting women students use Lamont Library. Faye Levine '65, features editor of The Crimson, ran for Harvard class marshall; she got enough votes to make the run-off, but the Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs refused to count them. "My campaign was, among other things, an attempt to demonstrate the absurdity of the HCUA," Levine...
...final club that fall. Timothy Leary was convicted for the first time, and Harvard put four students on probation for smoking marijuana--one of them, stricken with repentence, had confessed to his mother, who tipped off the University. The Harvard Undergraduate Council opined that letting women use Lamont would cause irreparable harm to the "male emotional stability factor," although the council said it saw nothing wrong with men continuing to use Hilles. "Boys cause less disturbance in a female environment than vice versa, the HUC explained. Nevertheless, the new perspective on other kinds of disturbance occasionally demonstrated startling pervasiveness. Eight...
...case of the Pusey Library, we are dealing with a new factor, a building which represents a serious deviation in the system. Although Widener, Houghton and Lamont are currently connected by underground tunnels, an underground building is not merely an extension of the tunnel system. Present technology does not allow us to hide a building--a structure below ground will make its presence felt on the ground because of the type of surface it generates and because of a shallow soil layer which cannot support large plant materials. In terms of its interaction with the rest of the Yard...
...consider the plaza first: the former slope around Lamont represents a grade change of about nine feet. Hazardous in icy weather, the slope will now be replaced by two sets of stairs--one at the lower level entrance to Lamont, and one near the entrance to the Pusey Library (parallel to Widener's main entry). Unlike the grand stairway of Widener or the less monumental stairways of University Hall, the new stairs do not function as the specific entrance to a specific place, but rather as an integral element of the Yard's pedestrian paths...