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Students will now be required to present their bursar's cards upon entering Lamont Library, in accordance with a new security procedure instituted for the first time yesterday...
...summer, involved a palm-scanning machine designed to reduce the number of non-paying persons eating in Harvard dining halls. The machine was relatively simple. The finger length, curvature and skin translucency of each student would be recorded on the magnetic strip on the back of his or her bursar's card. Then each dining hall would be equipped with a slotted scanner that would read the magnetic strip when the card was inserted and indicate whether the palm matched the card. Hall and Frank J. Weissbecker, director of food services, had planned to try out the palm scanners...
Hall wanted to use the machine to stop students from passing around bursar's cards to those not on board contract...
...Identimat machine checked to see if a student's hand print matched a pre-coded picture of that hand print on the back of the bursar's card...
...last day to move in. Some choose to arrive fashionably late. All feshmen must have their pictures taken for their frequently flashed bursar cards, so make sure you look good, particularly if you go for library attendants or members of the dining hall staff...