Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...science requirement. Hal took the old Nat Sci 6, an introductory anthropology course--it was the only Nat Sci which didn't have a lab. "There was a bit of trouble," Hal said, "When I had a freshman Cliffie trying to describe pictures of the reproductory system 'o me," Hal admits that some credit for passing the course must be given to the final paper he wrote on the vocalizations of the Great Apes. Standing in a bathtub (to get the right reverberations) Hal and his father recorded sounds made by the orangutan and the chimpanzee. Hall is particularly proud...
...because they give more flexibility as to when a student can study. He got most of his records from Recordings for the Blind, a privately endowed non-profit organization in New York which will record almost anything on 16 rpm records, given three months notice. Because of the honor system in effect at Amherst there was no problem in having Charlie take his exams in his own room, having some classmate read the questions...
...particularly serious problem that every blind student faces is the difficulty of having any normal social life. This is one reason why Charlie liked the fraternity system at Amherst: "I had a system of friends who got me 'blind' dates." Here at Harvard he finds it difficult to meet people. Hal uses his readers as contacts, but seldom dates a reader. "You don't get much reading done," he explains, "and, if you break up, you lose a reader." One problem he ran into in his undergraduate days was the type of girl who was willing to go out with...
...computing system three times faster and more powerful than the present system will be installed next April at the Harvard Computing Center...
...said that other universities have set-ups similar to the IBM 360/65 System. But Harvard "plans to exploit the remote capability more than other schools," he said...