Word: librarian
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...with scholarship aid. We approved the extension of the Lamont Library hours to midnight. But we were sorry to see that the Student Council, which usually spends much of its time agreeing with the administration, thought that extension of Lamont hours was unnecessary—just one week before Librarian Buck announced the change. It seems the Council jumped on the wrong wave of history this time and got caught in the backwash. Under the leadership of their new Master and their Senior Tutor, the men at Kirkland House were experimenting. Early in the fall they began a tutorial program...
According to its website, Lamont Library is the brainchild of Keyes D. Metcalf, Harvard’s top librarian until 1955. But Lamont also owes credit to the educational philosophy of Metcalf’s time, embodied by the famous “Red Book” of 1943. Written by a group of faculty led by Provost Paul H. Buck and President James B. Conant ’13, the “Red Book” declared the high purpose of a 20th Century undergraduate education: Harvard must not just teach skills but also civic character, moral temerity...
...have been an inheritor of this vision, though I did not initially want to be. When I was forced by my concentration to endure a session with a reference librarian, I grumbled, but I could not protest...
...Students were working in common rooms, dining areas, et cetera,” says Nancy Cline, the Larsen librarian of Harvard College. “But an analysis showed that there was a lot of disruption, a lot of noise, that it wasn’t the right sort of study environment...
...giant steel structures protecting London and Amsterdam, she gets riled, contemplating the "crappy" earthen mounds that shield her own city. But she's staying put. Her husband has a great job as an underwater diver in the Gulf, and she loves her friends and her work as a music librarian. "We didn't want to cop out. This is history. This is a great city." She's facing storm season, ready...