Word: lamonts
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CONSTRUCTION WORKERS will start blasting a 40-foot-deep hole in the bedrock of the Yard between Lamont and Houghton Libraries this summer to make room for the Nathan M. Pusey Library. When it is finished in 1975, the Pusey Library will be an almost completely underground, three-level addition to Harvard's library system, and the first new building in the Yard since Lamont...
...easy to design a building for the Yard, since it is an almost sacred area for anyone even remotely connected with Harvard, and disrupting its austere appearance would be akin to heresy. When Lamont Library was built in 1947, the public was assured that it would solve Harvard's library space problems and would not disrupt the Yard. "With a steel frame and a brick exterior, the new library will outwardly preserve the conservative architecture of the Yard, while the interior will be of modernistic design," the Crimson wrote on June...
...those students who graduate in the classes of '75, '76 and '77, the Yard is likely to be remembered by the loud machines and dusty materials of construction teams. For the first time since 1949 when Lamont Library was completed, new construction will dominate the tenor of Yard activity...
Allan E. Erickson, science specialist in the University Library, said yesterday that the new science library will merge the existing Lamont Library science collection with parts of the Hilles Library collection...
...library will be a very pleasant place to study with hours comparable to those of Lamont Library," Erickson said...