Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Elise suffers from bottle fatigue (too much vodka) and pencil-envy. She pines for the days when she used to turn out some of the top publicity copy on Madison Avenue. Hubby Carter is a $100,000-a-year magazine publisher and as full of answers as an IBM machine, except that he never asks himself the right questions about his wife or his life...
Dean Leighton expressed satisfaction with the present system of free choice, despite the disparity in the popularity of the Houses. "I think the system is fine," he commented, especially when compared with the IBM system of College assignment used at Yale...
...process of choosing, the students find out a lot about the College and who is here. An IBM system doesn't explain the structure of the College as a whole. Our system justifies much time and thought," Leighton commented...
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...survey of House Masters yesterday revealed that in general they disapprove of ever abandoning the present system for assigning Freshmen to Houses. Only Reuben A. Brower, Master of Adams House, conceded that making assignments through the use of IBM machines, as done at Yale, might be worthwhile "with a lot of qualifications...