Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Delacroix. Meanwhile her husband rose unsteadily and she had to put down the instrument to help him into an arm chair. The sleepy switchboard boy seemed to take eons to raise the hotel doctor. Before he arrived the heart of Leon Delacroix had stopped...
...paid to Ferdinand Foch last week−and the few speeches of French statesmen were almost incredibly Spartan and brief−perhaps the most significant was uttered by a certain Mile. Breton, telephone operator to Foch from 1924 until last week. As she came to sit at her little switchboard, in the gate keeper's lodge of the Marshal's residence, Mile. Breton said...
University 7600! Where is the switchboard located, and how many lines does it include? After calling various offices of the University, always under this same number, undergraduates are curious as to the answers of these and similar questions. Contrary to popular belief, the switchboard is not located in the University information office, but is installed in a private office on the top floor of Lehman Hall designated as the University switchboard room...
With three operators on duty from 8.30 to 5.30 o'clock daily excepting Saturday, when the board closes at 3 o'clock, and with extensions to 314 phones, the University switchboard handles approximately 2,000 calls every day. In fact so many subscribers are listed on this exchange, that it has become necessary to issue a 15-page directory for those included by the exchange so that calls may be made by number rather than by name. The Business School, H. A. A., and Medical School have switchboards of their own listed on the city exchange, but the first...
Although the mechanical system of the intramural exchange is similar to the regular city exchange, the Harvard switchboard is individual in one respect. To a person calling University 7600, comes the response, "Harvard", rather than the usual "number please" of other exchanges. An interesting feature of this exchange is the ability of all three operators to give without hesitation the number and addresses of all officers and professors connected with the University...