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Charles U. Daly, vice president for government and community affairs, said in late June that the machines are "more suited for Leavenworth than Harvard...
...threat that our hands would be scanned electronically every time we are. It seemed to many people as thought the shadow of the Police State had passed over Harvard. One University vice-president voiced a general sentiment when he said that the new machines would be more appropriate in Leavenworth than in the Freshman Union, and he was expressing more than just a personal feeling of outrage--his reaction betrayed the sure instinct of a public relations officer confronted with botulism in the vichyssoise. The first thing Charles Daly must have thought of when he stumbled on the Identimat machines...
Harvard is different from Leavenworth, in any case. One imagines that if Leavenworth had identimats they would be used on different sorts of occasions. Around here a bursar card, with or without hand print, is a mark of privilege--let's face it, you pay $5000 a year so that you and not somebody with a different shaped hand can have Harvard's food and library books. Charging totalitarianism when your palm is scanned in the Harvard dining halls is no more reasonable than complaining when a bank teller checks your signature before handing over the money...
...training course, which has been cut to less than seven weeks from the once traditional three months, has been wisely weeded and pruned. I remember spending two weeks alternately sitting around baking in the sun and policing the area at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., while waiting for something to happen, but much of this sort of foolishness has been eliminated. Gone are the endless orientation lectures that used to provide an opportunity for a recruit to catch up on sleep while some clod stood before a map and explained where Scandinavia was as he pointed to the Iberian peninsula...
...computer's memory has room for some far from ordinary awards. Harvard, for example, offers more than $24,000 to needy students named Anderson, Baxendale, Borden, Bright, Downer, Murphy or Pennoyer (granted by benefactors of the same names), while Yale has $1,000 earmarked for persons named Leavenworth or DeForest. The Mae Helene Bacon-Boggs fund grants $300 a year to a female graduate of Shasta College who is admitted to the University of California at Berkeley, if she can prove that she does not drink or smoke. Carleton College provides about $600 to farmers' daughters. The University...