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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than 4000 16-digit numbers, plus 4000 "commands" for carrying out the various operations of the machine, can be put on these nine drums. The drums revolve at speeds up to 120 revolutions per second and the magnetic spots move by the recording and play-back heads at speeds greater than 150 miles par hour...
...Back this fall with new makeup and a crop of good stories and poems, the Harvard Advocate has got off to a running start for what promises to be and interesting year. Last winter the Advocate arose reincarnated and proclaimed an end to its previous reputation of academic dehydration. The magazine began to publish interesting discussions of controversial topics; its fiction content showed improvement. And judging by the first issue of Volume 133, this new policy will be continued...
...origins of Stanford are shrouded in myths which go back to the great railroad man and Senator Leland Stanford himself. The story goes that the Senator gathered a few of his millions together and with a generous heart and bulging bank roll, proceeded to Yale University. (Some stories say it was Harvard, others both Harvard and Yale.) That dignified institution turned down the "tainted" money, feeling that it could not build a university with money gouged from California formers by a railroad monopoly. "Very well, I'll found a university of my own," said the good Senator...
...stormy career. One month after its unveiling on the Stanford campus it was captured by California and carried off to Berkeley. Many years later, when it was beng removed from the vault of an Oakland bank, it was seized by a group known as the immortal six and brought back to the Farm. Another theft returned it to Berkeley until 1930, when 21 stalwarts from Stanford stormed a rally and captured it. Three years later, by mutual agreement, the Axe was made a Big Game trophy to be displayed in the student union of the winning team until the next...
...with the restoration of other forms of students exchange and the obstacles blocking passage between Eastern, and Western Europe, the interchange of information among the Europeans has had to take a back seat for the moment...