Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Council is upset about Lamount Library's treatment of late sleepers, but it hasn't much of a case. The Council wants the library to extend the time limit on overnight books and to lower the fine 25 cents before 10:15 a.m. This would be a big help to the few who can hardly make breakfast on time but it would hurt students who like to study before their ten o'clock class...
...Student Council is upset about Lamont Li-the first hour and a quarter would make tardiness less painful but would probably mean more overdue books. Lamont director Phillip J. McNiff tried a no-fine system last year, but found that student returned more than 12 percent of overnight books after 9 o'clock. Even after Lamont imposed the 75 cent "messenger charge," the number of late overnight books was only halved. But as long as this keeps up, it is no time to relax the fines...
What about ratios? Ratios mean restrictions, Marshall said; he could understand ratios on air or sea power, which could be changed overnight under changed circumstances, "but [ground] troops move like turtles...
Harvard has a new tree, sans root, fruit or leaf. Overnight it sprang to its full height of 27 feet in the new graduate-center quadrangle. Walter Gropius, famed professor in Harvard's department of architecture, designed the center and commissioned the tree from Richard Lippold, a Manhattan sculptor. Constructed of steel rods, it is intended to represent nothing less than "the world...
...Colhoun, a divorcee with three children, was afraid, like many others on the West Coast, that an A-bomb attack would catch her napping. In hundreds of California backyards, sweating husbands and excited children were blistering their hands and straining their backs burrowing into the ground. Overnight, dozens of new construction firms appeared, offering everything from $13.50 foxhole shelters to luxurious $5,500 suites equipped with telephone, escape hatches, bunks, toilets and a Geiger counter. City switchboards were flooded with calls asking for shelter specifications. Newspaper ads exhorted home owners to buy "Life Safes . . . protection for you and your family...