Others found the giveaway a bit excessive.
"It's pretty crazy right now," said Alex T. Maskin '00. "We're just putting them in the closet because there's so many of them."
One of Maskin's roommates, Lawrence T. Ho '00, agreed.
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"As seniors, we're not going to replace our halogen lamps," Ho said.
However, he said, they might be helpful as a preventive measure, especially during the summer when students may not have their own lamps.
"It was not the most important thing that happened in the world today," Ware concluded, "but it's a good thing for Cabot, Harvard and humanity."