Word: widenere
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A resilient Harvard accommodated the growing classes. Lamont Library opened in 1949, and the undergraduates entrenched in the overcrowded Widener Library reading rooms left the University libraries for their own.
A resilient Harvard accommodated the growing classes. Lamont Library opened in January 1949, and the undergraduates entrenched in the overcrowded Widener Library reading rooms left the University libraries for their own.
But Radcliffe students, whose access to Widener was restricted, were barred from entering the new library. The policy was justified by officials who said the staff needed to oversee a co-ed group of students in reading rooms was prohibitively expensive.
Professor Samuel Eliot Morison, who had replicated the voyage of Columbus, occasionally walked the length of the Widener Reading Room in leather-heeled riding boots.
Although Shoshan said "Widener has an amazing collection of Israeli election materials," he said he was most inspired to write his thesis when he stood in Israel at midnight, amidst a crowd that had gathered around a single mystic.