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...route to the organization’s punch outing attempted to flag down a Harvard University shuttle. When the shuttle declined to stop to accommodate the screaming young men, one particularly perceptive punch exclaimed, “Man, Harvard hates final clubs!” How droll. Lamont Library??s soporific effect hits the café: Two undergrads were passed out by 5:11 p.m., a mere hour after its grand opening. Osmosis is the new studying. A veteran UC rep with rumored presidential aspirations attends the first UC meeting wasted after the Owl punch. A sophomore student...
...Students began to camp out in the library for days on end. This was particularly the case during finals, when Lamont junkies only occasionally left their desks to dash out for foodstuffs, or maybe a much needed shower. The truly hard-core students even brought Primal Scream to the library??a contingent of a dozen or so nudists conga-lined through the third floor. Some promising political careers died that warm spring night. And now that Lamont has a café, we will never have to leave. Our library now serves all fundamental human needs. Even sexual desires...
...Connecticut judge sentenced map thief E. Forbes Smiley III to five years in prison Friday, ending a saga that began after Yale University librarians found his Exacto knife on the floor of their rare books library??a smoking gun in the 15-month-long case...
...highest bidder next month—but students and professors don’t have to worry about finding a new place to study and research. The family’s 7.5-acre former mansion in Newport, R.I.—not Harvard’s flagship library??is being sold at auction by its current owner and is expected to fetch an eight-figure sum that may approach $25 million. Both the beach front villa and Widener Library were completed in 1915 and were designed by architect Horace Trumbauer. The estate, dubbed Miramar—meaning...
...Libraries (HUL), Sidney Verba ’53 has become the yardstick by which all librarians will be measured. Throughout his tenure, Verba has managed to keep Harvard ahead of the curve, never afraid to experiment with new technologies and inspirations to our evolving library system. From expanding our library??s connectivity in the Library Digital Initiative, to increasing storage via the Harvard Depository, to spearheading Harvard’s partnership with Google to digitize thousands of public-domain books, Verba has proven to be a genuine freethinker and pioneer. According to Interim President Derek C. Bok, Verba...