Word: lamont
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Houghton Library opened, three months after Pearl Harbor, it was described as "fireproof, earthquake-proof, and reasonably protected against the incendiary bomb." The fire inspector looked the place over and classified it in the same category as a bank vault. And now, the staff at its parvenu neighbor Lamont, (which the Houghton people refer to as "Uncle Tom's Cabin"), call it the "Jewel Box." For, besides being the University's most sumptuous bookshelf, Houghton acts as show case and safe deposit vault for one of the world's finest collections of rare books and documents...
...looking forward to the Christmas rush season," complained Stadler as he answered an insistant ring. It was someone asking for Dr. Myers. "The National Research Foundation is Eliot 4-5400," explained Black as he left for Lamont...
Whether or not to admit women to Lamont Library will be the main topic of discussion in a regular membership meeting of the John Reed Club at 7:45 p.m. tonight. The get-together will take place in the Foreign Students' Lounge of Phillips Brooks House...
...Lamont Library rules covering books withdrawn over Christmas vacation were announced yesterday's by Roland H. Moody, circulation librarian...
...interested in going abroad this summer will meet in the Lamont Forum Room at 4:30 p.m. today to hear Miss Helen Bryan, Executive Secretary in Charge of International Tours for NSA, outline NSA Foreign Tours...