Word: registrar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sorter, which resembles a glorified cigarette dispenser, single-mindedly sorts all the cards into class lists, academic rankings, the number of bald veterans in Indic Philology or anything Registrar Kennedy wants. When February comes around, the Sorter arranges all the course cards in the proper order for exam schedules; from there these cards are shoved into another big box called the Collator which ferrets out all conflicts...
...there was no need for all this, because few people wanted information like grade sheets. But demands on the Registrar's office grew until they required a squad of typists and weeks of time. The first machines to appear in the University Hall basement were the Sorter, a Key Punch, and the Tabulator, the minimum necessary for any IBM system. The Collator, Reproducer, Interpreter, and another Key Punch were added later in the year...
...enumerating job. First it is a matter of arranging combinations of little holes in the cards into the sequence which will produce the required letters and numbers. Then a series of these letters and numbers representing various categories, is arranged in the sequence which will produce whatever compilations the Registrar wants. When the cards go through any one of the machines, electric contacts press against the card-board; wherever the contacts go through they set off a bewildering process which eventually produces the desired result...
Sargent Kennedy '28, Registrar, pointed out that the Army is nearing its quota faster than expected and that it probably will take far fewer students than was estimated earlier this year...
...Registrar Kennedy offered an additional explanation for the five percent rise in unsatisfactory records in the Class of 1952, suggesting that this year's juniors may not be up to the Class of 1951 academically, In their respective sophomore years, he pointed out, the Class of 1951 had 40.9 percent on the Dean's List while the Class...