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...here it be, Mother dear. Final exams are a vague, distant memory and the surf is bitchin'. See you in September...
...disorders which are frequently consequent upon any confideable member of the students being together at entertainments, as well as to guard against extravagance and needless expense, all undergraduates are prohibited from making any festive entertainment in the College or its vicinity," according to the laws of 1763, a very distant precursor of today's student handbook...
After failing to place in the San Diego Crew Classic two weeks ago, and dropping a not so close decision to Princeton last weekend, the Black and White heavies were edged out by five seats by the Big Green. The University of New Hampshire came in a distant third...
More conventional video technology is already in wide use to carry instruction to students at separate geographical locations. At Harvard, the Medical School is connected by closed-circuit TV to our teaching hospitals, to the Science Center in Cambridge, to MIT and even to other, more distant institutions via satellite. Through these links, speeches and seminars at any of these institutions can be viewed by faculty and students in all the others. Elsewhere, universities have launched even more ambitious ventures. Stanford offers engineering courses by closed-circuit TV so that employees in high-tech companies throughout Silicon Valley can attend...
...computers to search for articles in a number of journals and instantly reproduce the entire text. It is not yet possible to do the same for all books and articles in a library, since most of these materials do not exist in machine-readable form. In the not--too-distant future, however, computers may be able to conjure up on a screen the titles, table of contents, and indexes not only of all books in a university library but of all volumes in all participating libraries across the country and abroad...