Lamont Has Everything but Girls As Sanctum Starts a Co-ed Life

By mid-afternoon, one pink-sweatered Cliffie sated on a chair in the main reading room.

But in the reference room, the poetry room, Harvard Collection room, all was before--half deserted, all male, giving no sign that co-education have really come to Lamont.

Boys were scarce, girls rarer still on this first Vanished were the feminists of the years, who only recently had threatened sit-ins or worse within the hallowed halls.

By 3 p.m. several hundred books had been out by boys, but not one girl and ventured to the reserve desk, 3:15 there was one. By 3:30 the were three, although one was a students and so naturally better to such occasions.

Even the newly-renovated ladies' room, nestled in a secluded corner of the fourth level, stood gleaming and undiscovered. "Is this place something new?" an emerging Cliffie was asked. "I don't know, I've never been here before," she explained.

A modest ceremony awaited the first Cliffie to walk into coeducated Lamont. She came anonymously at 9:20 a.m. and was presented by two librarians with a Xeroxed copy of a picture of Abraham Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation. "It was the best thing we could find," a reference librarian explained. "We were glad she came. We were afraid that no one would."

When the recipient was told that she was being honored as the first Cliffie in Lamont, she was surprised. "I've been coming here all year," she said.