Word: lamonts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the construction of Lamont Library was first suggested, the CRIMSON, almost salubrious with the class's sense of the past, protested: "TheUniversity must not allow the Yard to disintegrate into just another Cambridge block. To do this while disregarding outside and convenient sites is to misuse a treasured locale and to insult generations of men who lived there...
...into Harvard. I suppose I thought it meant somehow that I was special in some more special way than the mass of brain-specialists here; and at the same time, that I possessed none of their obnoxious wizardry. I was not like these strangers who in the harsh Lamont light took on the look of glass giraffes. Yet somehow they fondled my fancy and drove me casually on through the rainy years and plunked me finally here-a Harvard senior in a world of monstrous resignations and boring assertions...
...forget that true nostalgia demands commitment. Freshman year when I was supposed to be working at shelving books on the second floor of Lamont, I spent much of my time surreptitiously paging through the old bound volumes of Life and the Saturday Evening Post; for my effort, I really think I came much closer to the past than I did by reading Life's recent "Nostalgia Issue" in a dentist's office last month. For memory isn't something that can be served up at the enterprising whim of some features editor or film producer; it's an ephemeral commodity...
...Afro-American Studies Department opened a new departmental library Wednesday in Lamont 511. The library, designed primarily for undergraduate concentrators in Afro-American Studies, will include all books used in departmental courses as well as other books and periodicals of special interest to the department...
...unclear at this time just what will happen to the house at 17 Quincy St., though there has been talk of an underground extension of Lamont Library and office room for Bok's enlarged staff. Smiling, Pusey said yesterday that "There are lots of people who have designs on that space...