Word: lamont
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Bauer's handlers billed his speech as a "major address," but his appearance was limited to participation in a panel in the Lamont Forum Room. The panel was part of a two-day forum that drew many veterans of the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, including Harvard graduate student Wang...
Fifteen years later, in 1966, the majority of Harvard students were still opposed to allowing women into Lamont...
Access to the newly built Lamont library,however, was not available to women when thelibrary opened in January 1949. According toofficials, the staff needed to chaperone a mixedgroup of students in reading rooms wasprohibitively expensive...
...things changed after female undergraduates were allowed to use Lamont for two weeks in the fall of 1966 during the construction of the new library for women, Hilles Library in the Radcliffe Quadrangle...
Afterwards, Dean of the Faculty Franklin L. Ford '48 announced that the administrators had determined that use of the library by women did not pose any serious problems. His announcement sparked a spirited controversy, with letters to the editor back and forth persuading Lamont to let women in or "keep the girls...