An American publisher, Corliss Lamont, was mailed a copy of the Peking Review news magazine, the content of which one imagines hewed pretty closely to the desires of the Chinese Communist Party.

The following spring, however, a champion enlisted their cause. He was Corliss Lamont '24. At the head of an indignant alumni group he offered personally to solicit from other alumni the ...

His father helped finance the main undergraduate library, and members of the family established the Florence Corliss Lamont Professorship of Divinity in memory of Lamont's mother in 1956.