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Operation Overload...
This year Harvard's forward line has been working on what Thomas calls an "overload" system. The play begins when the ball is passed up from the fullbacks. The ball carrier, usually Phil Kydes, will move to one side of the field, and Thomas, who is thirty or forty yards upfield, will break in the same direction...
...compensate for these twin tendencies, Epps decided to overload the Houses at the beginning of this academic year, and then to shuffle people during the first few weeks as students took leaves of absence. If need be, this overload would continue throughout the first term until the spring exodus began. The intended result was a brief period of inconvenience to a few, the eventual accomodation of all, and a body in every bed at Harvard...
...would be easy to pass off this disproportionate overload as the result of bad luck in a game of statistical roulette. But there are more complex, and less acceptable explanations. In some Houses, House secretaries were charged with the task of accomodating more people than they possibly had room for. Whether it was because of poor communication between the Houses and Epps's office, or because of unresponsiveness from Epps's office to the protests of House secretaries when unreasonable numbers of students were assigned to particular Houses, the fact remains that nothing substantial was done to avert an obvious...
...fact that the Treasurer, Financial Vice President, Investment Manager, and Managing Partner of the State Street Investment Corporation are all one person and a member of the Corporation raises not only the familiar problem of overload but doubt about how the rest of the Corporation is to achieve the human distance to monitor his judgment and performance over the full range of his extensive responsibilities," the Andrews Committee wrote...