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...Hum 5: Grosman's section should contact him at 547-4985 about final papers. Miss Herman's section should contact her by May 19 about grade options if they have not already done...
...Hum 8: Low's section should contact him about course options...
...noise out of their products are now engineering it back in. Sperry Rand announced an especially quiet Remington electric typewriter, only to find that secretaries complained that the new model was slow and stiff. In fact, the quiet model was at least as fast and workable. Without the old hum, however, typists had the impression that they were working less briskly. Hoover Co. had the same experience. Their engineers perfected an almost whooshless vacuum cleaner that promised to be a smashing success. But housewives, who associate noise with power, assumed that the new machine would not effectively suck up dirt...
...book, leaving shortly after with a small train of people behind. After wandering in and out of Reading International and the Paperback Booksmith, he headed through the Yard to Lowell Lecture Hall, where he sat quietly with his entourage through the last ten minutes of Daniel Seltzer's Hum 8 lecture. After class, he talked for 40 minutes with the students who gathered around...
...Sitting there, listening to that lecture, you reminded me of sheep," he said. "Why did you sit here and listen to that shit?" he asked, adding that he was referring to lectures generally and not to today's Hum 8 lecture specifically. He admitted that he had not heard much of that lecture...