Word: delmare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coined only eight years ago by Ford Executive Vice President Delmar S. Harder, "automation" first described the automatic transfer of auto parts from one metalworking machine to the next. But its meaning has broadened as fast as its application. A few purists still claim that it should be applied only to completely automatic machines that feed back into themselves reports of how they are doing, and correct themselves if necessary. But most businessmen lump under automation all automatic machines and processes, including the giant tools that follow directions punched on a tape, huge computers that make thousands of intricate mathematical...
...late afternoon, the Committee members will split up to visit the other Houses. They will spend the evening with the Masters, Charles P. Whitlock, senior tutor of Dudley, Reynolds, Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Students, and F. Skiddy von Stade, Jr. '38, Dean of Freshmen...
...When Delmar Leighton became Dean in 1952, however, the bookies predicted that his Administrative Board would go along with the Masters' desire for "liberalized" parietal rules. This is exactly what happened. The House Masters again piously told the Board what they thought parietal hours should be. This time the Board listened. On December 2, 1952, it proposed that the Saturday curfew be raised to 11 p.m., and that afternoon hours on every week day start at 4 instead of 1 p.m. Officially, the Masters had no idea how the afternoon change had come about, but privately, they could be seen...
...Delmar...
Moderator Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Students, set the tone for the gathering in New Lecture Hall by noting definite shifts in emphasis since 1930 toward more serious studying and more intense extra-curricular activity. He affirmed that in an age of anxiety, today's undergraduate does not shirk his responsibility...