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From the very start, Lamont received mixed reactions to its decor and design. Touted by many as the very best in new technology and engineered study space, the building garnered some criticism along with its praise even in the early years...
...Lamont Library is as modernistic as colored television," The Crimson opined on the library's opening...
...speech at the library's opening ceremony, President James B. Conant '14 extolled Lamont's virtues: "The conventional red tape of library bureaucracy has disappeared. The undergraduate in quest of knowledge or inspiration, whether he is self-propelled or motivated by dread of approaching examinations or papers to be written, can go directly to the shelves...
...undergraduate quoted in the Jan. 15, 1949, Harvard Alumni Bulletin said Lamont's atmosphere beat that of Widener with flying colors, calling the Widener reading room "a disturbed vastness about as conducive to study as the waiting room in Grand Central Station...
Another Herald letter to the editor proclaimed Lamont "the most hideous college building of its type in America." This writer also compared the library to a cheese factory, then modified his statement, writing, "It is worse than that, more like a garage or livery stable...