Word: cards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still have your card from last year, dig it out of your wallet and compare it to your new one. Right away, it's clear the new ones are a lot flimsier. This year's cards are not as thick as the old ones. What takes a little more subtlety to discover, however, is that the embossments on the cards are not as high on the new ones, either...
...NOTEBOOK: Harvard travels to Brandeis Saturday for a 2 p.m. start...The Crimson had 34 fouls yesterday, the Huskies 16...Catliff was issued a yellow card 17 minutes into the first half...
...University, following its Great Frugal Tradition, no doubt is worried that it cannot afford to install copy card readers. But this time, poverty is a poor excuse. Prices are doubling, and the extra revenue that this will bring should easily make up for the expense which copy cards entail...
...Copy cards would change all that. Instead of eating coins, the machines could deduct credit from your copy card. And deducting 7 or 8 cents from a copy card is just as easy as deducting 10 cents. Even if installing a copy card system would raise the cost of each copy by a penny, at 8 or 9 cents everyone is still better...
...course, Harvard wants to test out copy cards in a small library--one where, incidently, most students will never go--before committing to a card system on a large scale. But if the cautious minds who run the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' libraries bothered to stroll over to Langdell, they would discover that the copy card system already at the law library works just fine...