I went to Washington U. in St. Louis for one semester - fall of '59. Actually worked IN the library doing shelving while they were changing from Dewey Decimal to LC system..books kept disappearing from one area and reappearing in another...but that's another story.

I had noticed in the card catalog that they had Tropic of Cancer listed! "Wow!" says I, all of 19 years old! (remember...this was 1959 and almost everything was banned) Turned out you had to ask for it at the desk, because it was the Obelisk Press edition from Paris about 1937, and it was kept in a vault because it was a 'rare book' and valued at about $200. So, the lady fetched it for me, explaining that "our students are allowed to see anything, as long as it's read here in this room".
   I read awhile and.....yep...there WERE some of 'those words' in print! And yes, Rapaire, it was kinda boring after the titillation value wore off. I suppose I only got thru 30-40 pages.
   The interesting thing is: within a few weeks of my 'seeing' formerly forbidden printed matter, stacks of "Lady Chatterly's Lover" appeared in the neighborhood bookstore! Our long Anthony Comstock nightmare was over, and soon every old 'forbidden' book was being published.