Word: lamont
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...undergraduate quoted in the Jan. 15, 1949, Harvard Alumni Bulletin said Lamont's atmosphere beat that of Widener with flying colors, calling the Widener reading room "a disturbed vastness about as conducive to study as the waiting room in Grand Central Station...
Another Herald letter to the editor proclaimed Lamont "the most hideous college building of its type in America." This writer also compared the library to a cheese factory, then modified his statement, writing, "It is worse than that, more like a garage or livery stable...
...Lamont began as a duplicate library, meaning its holdings were also available in less "open" settings. It remains so to this day, according to Cole...
...original catalog of 30,000 books was chosen by Edwin E. Williams, the first assistant librarian of Lamont, to provide undergraduates easy access to the books they were likely to need most often...
...Alumni Bulletin stated that Lamont contained duplicates of books in high demand at other University libraries. The example given was Hadley Cantril's The Invasion From Mars...