Word: lamonts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sharon Hamby, assistant Librarian for Lamont, said yesterday that the Afro Department had not informed Lamont of the closing. "Sometimes the person who is supposed to work at the Afro library doesn't come in. In that case I usually call the Afro Department to tell them that the library is closed," she said...
...seismologists suspected that the change in velocity was peculiar to the geology of Central Asia: it seemed unlikely that the phenomenon could be used as a predicting tool in other quake-prone areas. Yash Aggarwal, a 30-year-old graduate student of Indian descent at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, did not share the skepticism. As part of his doctoral work, he decided to study the seismic records of the swarms of microquakes that had occurred during 1971 in the Blue Mountain lake region of New York's Adirondack Mountains. Aggarwal's hunch paid...
...agreed to talk to reporters about his House Plan.) In fact, although The Crimson repeatedly expressed distress over the dismissals, it always managed to seem a bit more concerned over the University's image than the future of the women involved. In March, when ex-Crimson editor Corliss Lamont '24 announced the formation of an alumni committee to raise several thousand dollars worth of back wages owed to the scrubwomen by the University. The Crimson upbraided him for resurrecting what it saw as a dead issue. But the paper did continue a campaign to get Harvard to disclose its wage...
...assumption that once it was past The Crimson would return to its male clubbiness, which the world outside assumed was its natural order of business. All these things bothered us of course, but they didn't really bother us very much. When I was a freshman in 1964, Lamont Library was closed to women students, as of course it had been closed since the day it opened. When I was a sophomore, women could use Lamont, the building, but not the books (laughter), if they had section meetings there but only if they went in the back door and walked...
...Many students prefer late night studying and for those students who share rooms, the library is the only place where they can work," the Freshman Council said in a January 10 letter to Theodore G. Alevizos. Librarian of Lamont Library...