Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...location revealed nothing in the way of class or professor. It was not until several harsh inquiries were made that Kennedy found out that the wandering sage had moved again, this time not even telling his department. Kennedy once toyed with the idea of letting an omniscient IBM machine take over his duties for him, but he has given up hope of relief from that source. How could the IBM machine know what to do with a flood of requests for a room on Mon., Wed., and Fri. at 10, the most popular hour? Kennedy smiles, pours over Mr. Barre...
This does not sound particularly oppressive so far. But due to the electronic perversity of IBM machines, notably those in University Hall, the grades which draft board officials use in determining a student's status do not appear until middle or late July. By then, the modern bicycle version of the grand tour is quite out of the question, except for those few fanatic enough to nip over and back at great expense per hour of enjoyment gained. Most would-be travelers stay home. This has happened to several local undergraduates, and probably many other students as well...
...there are better reasons for restraint than this--they are hidden, we suspect, in the Report's figures, waiting patiently to be unearthed by an enterprising IBM machine. The causes of G.E.'s unpopularity are undoubtedly the very inadequacies of the present program that are discussed in the Report's first fifty-two pages. And if these deficiencies are correctable, as the Council seems to think, the requirement proposal is irrelevant at best. To be sure, the Council has covered itself by suggesting temporary maintenance of the satus quo, but it seems a lamentable waste of time to analyze...
George C. Homans '32, associate professor of Sociology, who supervises the writing of senior Social Relations theses, said yesterday that the Department "naturally" gives all the assistance it can to its students, including the use of mimeographing machines and IBM calculators. He added that faculty members often helped the students compile their material more accurately, but said that every department in the University tries to do the same thing both in thesis and course work...
...arrived, the women in the group were filing through the doors into the courtroom, each one clutching her card. Why the sexes were separated was not made clear--perhaps it was not made clear crude sense of chivalry that sent the women in first; perhaps the IBM machines in Washington practice segregation. At any rate, we men hung around in the corridor until the last of the women went through the doors. Then a bustling little agent of the government appeared and urged us to line up too--"just as if you was at a ball game waiting for tickets...