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Francis M. Wilhoit '49, a second-semester senior at the time of Lamont's opening, shares his rather unusual story of opening day in the library's on-line memory book...
...Lamont's gift met a pressing need. During the spike in enrollment after the war due to the GI Bill and returning veterans, overcrowding became a serious problem in Widener, especially during exams...
Like the Boylston Hall renovations just last year, the building of Lamont caused Wigglesworth Hall residents many sleepless mornings...
...thought to be a piece of architectural genius to fit as many floors and as many functions into the small amount of space that the University was willing to grant," says Heather E. Cole, current librarian of the Hilles and Lamont libraries...
...Lamont Librarian Philip J. McNiff estimated that 7,200 curious undergraduates visited the newfangled library-only 1,000 of whom had actually come to study...