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There was a trial period from December to May in which Harvard provided Google with a random sampling of books which were then scanned on premises because Verba said he was concerned with keeping the collections available to the current Harvard community and avoiding book damage...
...Summers’ penchant for random instances of student interaction have only added to the love-hate relationship students seem to have with students. Following his appearance at a Currier House study break this spring, Summers took time to bat a wiffleball with the undergraduates present, while still wearing his suit...
Administrators in New Haven adopted a then-cutting-edge IBM computer that generated random residential assignments to its nearly 1,000 freshmen. The Crimson argued that Harvard should emulate Yale’s new housing policy, so that “the stigma of not ‘getting the first choice’ would disappear, along with cliques of dissatisfied people and uneven distribution.” But in Cambridge, Masters resisted such a change...
...with the College’s 1996 transition to a computerized process of assigning housing, students no longer apply to Houses, but do choose a group of up to eight classmates with whom they want to live. Each group is then assigned at random to one of the 12 Houses...
...expedition we variously called a library safari and a lib crawl, packing, as provisions, a bottle of rum. It had been on our list of things to do before we graduated. We climbed spiral staircases; we poked into the back of stacks, tipping books from the shelves at random in the hope of opening doors to secret passages. We pretended to shut each other in the vault in the basement of the Kirkland library. We passed the rum in the second-floor stacks of the Eliot library. By the time we returned to Winthrop, tired and damp from the driving...