Word: lamonts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Women won their first victory in the battle to coeducationalize the library in the fall of 1964. Citing the need for more space, the Library Committee decided to allow Radcliffe students to attend sections in Lamont...
Registrar Sargent Kennedy '28 defended the decision at the time, saying, "It doesn't make a great deal of sense to continue the all-male sections in Lamont. After all, this is a joint education...
...Library Committee further infuriated some male students by beginning to hire women, especially wives of Harvard students, to staff Lamont's front desk. Theodore G. Alevizos, then Lamont librarian, explained that women were "more stable" than the non-Harvard male employees he had previously hired...
...Radcliffe women continued to ruin their heels on the Lamont stairs while the issue lay dormant for more than a year...
Then all hell broke loose in December 1965, when the Library Committee announced that it would consider letting women use all of Lamont's facilities...