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...many managements consider the computer an overgrown adding machine, thus often assign it to the wrong people, who frequently have no knowledge of the complexities of business to which a computer could be applied. "Almost all computers," says Albert Sperry, president of Panellit, Inc., whose business is making automation controls, "are run by the accountants," simply because the most obvious applications are for statistical jobs. Computers are usually put to work first on payroll jobs, which already use highly mechanized punch-card systems. While the computer can often do the work more quickly, it does...
...none of the course reading until he finds out what the paper topic is and then read only what he considers necessary for the paper. Thus the methodical, diligent student would be penalized and the crafty fraud unjustly rewarded. But professors who make sure that the topics they assign are broad enough to require completion of a majority of the required reading can insure that academic virtue is given its own reward. Surely the scope afforded in a paper topic will represent a more satisfactory test of a student's work than either the overly picayune or overly general variety...
Under the present system of 27 different rents, the Masters are operating "as hotel managers," trying to assign students with a given ability-to-pay into a "fantastically complicated" rent distribution pattern, the source explained. In addition, the resulting rent adjustment system forces the Masters to operate what is, in effect, "an extensive scholarship program," he maintained...
...library is not particularly anxious to assign literature to the Cage. Any book published in the United States or readily available here will be placed in the regular stacks regardless of its content, with the exception of certain medical works like the Kinsey report and birth control propaganda, which are regulated by Massachusetts. All materials which cannot be legally imported, however, must be placed in the Cage. This of course includes the classic cases of American censorship: the well-known, often cited, little-read works of Henry Miller, and the unabridged versions of D. H. Lawrence's more torrid works...
...Every House has the physical facilities to tutor more students than it now does," said Charles H. Taylor, Master of Kirkland House, "but we cannot get more tutors unless the various departments assign them...