For nearly a century, the ornate library with the chandelier, fireplace, and wood-paneled walls has drawn students to its prized collection of classics, thousands of dust-covered tomes from Cicero to Twain.
The students who have long cherished the small library inside Dunster House, Harvard’s oldest dormitory, discovered a new feature there this week:
two brass bars stretching across nearly every shelf, making the books impossible to peruse.
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6 comments:
Wow...kind of like my brother's room when I was a kid, except without the chandelier, fireplace, wood-paneled walls...okay, so nothing like my brother's room, but both are forbidden.
Hilarious, Aaron. Had brothers as well.
*gasp* They put the books in jail?
Heh. They're taking Banned Books Week a bit far, apparently.
books as a forbidden drug. i like it.
Books . . . as forbidden drug.
If you don't write it, Samantha . . . I will!
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