Word: cooped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year, they point out, the Coop took its first step toward filling the Fall shelves at the beginning of May, when it sent a form letter to all professors teaching courses in the Fall and asked for a list of their required books. At the bottom was stamped "Early Information is Important!" The reason for the exclamation mark was simple: it would take publishers three to six weeks to ship the textbooks that the Coop ordered...
Less than half of the forms had been sent back by the end of the Spring term. "That was understandable," John G. Morrill, Coop general manager, commented in a recent interview. "They wanted a little free time to look over the publishers' lists, see what was new in their field." The Coop, therefore, did not bother the professors who had not returned their lists...
...middle of August, close to the deadline for ordering books that would arrive before school opened, only a few more forms had been sent back in -- much less than had been returned in previous summers. "Second notices" were mailed by the Coop -- and most of them laid unanswered in the offices of professors who were away...
...Coop had less than two-thirds of the forms on Sept. 11. Secretaries were put on the phone full-time and told to talk to anyone -- professors, department heads, section men -- who knew the reading lists. By Sept. 24 the Coop had ordered texts for only three-quarters of the 825 courses it was expected to supply...
While ordering books, the Coop generally asked for enough to supply the number of students who took the course the previous year -- the same way the Registrar's office assigned classrooms, and with the same predictable amount of error. For new courses it relied on professors' estimates or simply made a guess...