Word: opened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Morison, who pulled off the absent-minded professor routine Monday afternoon, had put the briefcase on the roof of his car while struggling to unlock a jammed car door. Flushed by success after forcing the lock open, he drove off from Harvard Square with the briefcase still over his head. In due time it fell off, and Morison hastened to report the incident to the police...
...actually impractical to keep the library open for the entire summer, perhaps a less costly plan could be devised to open it at least one or two days of the week, and certainly for a couple of weeks before final exams. Staff would present no problem; the University plans to have librarians checking and classifying the books for part of the summer, in any case...
...Director of University Libraries has estimated the cost of keeping Lamont open all summer at $10,000--most of which would go for air-conditioning--and the University feels that the money could be better spent elsewhere. This may very well be so, but there is no real excuse for treating the summer students as poor relations and denying them the regular College facilities. About 1500 undergraduates are expected to attend the summer school, and this number surely justifies some expenditure for their comfort and convenience...
When the administration makes its final decision on Lamont today--a summer shutdown was tentatively scheduled before the building was opened--it should consider carefully the possibility of having the library open for part of the time. After all, to close an air-conditioned building during the summer because it is air-conditioned does seem a little bit absurd...
...Francke had gotten together enough money for the present building, most of it given by Adolphus Busch, of brewery fame. The work was completed just about the time the U. S. entered the war, but anti-German feeling was so strong that the building did not open until 1921. Rumors circulated in Cambridge that the Museum was a German spy center; other reports asserted that the building's concrete foundations had been especially designed as an enemy gun emplacement...