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Word: ibm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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Other objections are equally cogent. It is simply a waste of time for a professor and his staff to file a mid-term grade for each student: the grade is sent off, chewed up by an IBM machine, and then filed in a distant archive, to be forgotten forever. Only men with the poorest grades will be hauled up before the Deans and prodded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mid-term Grades | 10/17/1950 | See Source »

...administrative trouble is unfortunate, but it is relatively unimportant: in an elective system, the fullest freedom of choice possible is a necessity. At the risk of slowing down University Hall's IBM machines, the College should give students back their extra week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Time for Decision | 10/3/1950 | See Source »

Spring is born today in a brown envelope. Its birth will be punched into IBM cards, filed in University Hall, and notarized, with signature cards. The season will be baptized with a list of course numbers ending with b, and confirmed when the crews carry their shells down the long sloping ramps of the boathouses into the Charles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happy Birthday | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

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