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...fundamentally less deserving variety than Harvard men. This means, first, that Radcliffe girls may not distract a whole reading roomful of scholars but must restrict their activities to a small section at one end of the room. It means in the second place severe restrictions on their use of Widener's reading room books...
Those who want to keep Radcliffe out of Lamont Library argue that the new library, unlike Widener, is designed not for scholarship or scholars but specifically for Harvard undergraduates, who should therefore have the sole and unrestricted use of it. "We are running a library for Harvard men," they say, "and see no reason why we should have to bear other people's problems, too." Every Radcliffe student using the library, they further point out, would ent into the supply of books and chairs and other facilities for Harvard...
That the building was intended for Harvard use is certainly true, but it seems of no great importance. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is certainly a Harvard institution, but its members and its Dean have worked intelligently with Radcliffe to provide a workable, useful relationship between the two schools. Dean Buck has not shied away from the responsibility inherent in helping Radcliffe with its own problems, and neither should the library's officers...
...argument that letting Radcliffe use the library will make things that much worse for Harvard undergraduates might be true for Widener's limited and outmoded reading room facilities. But such a statement can hardly apply to Lamont, which as designed is far from a minimal building. There should be enough space in Lamont for Harvard, Radcliffe, and all the king's men. And the cost of the paltry number of extra books needed by Radcliffe's relatively few students could be borne by Radcliffe in an arrangement similar to that by which faculty expenses are now apportioned...
...despair. A certain Eliot House veteran, after exercising a shattered arm into workable condition during the school year, wound up in a summer vacation accident and re-broke the limb in an identical place. He's hard at work again right now, with a good chance of regaining full use of the limb...