University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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WITH ALMOST invisible wire, physics instructor demonstrates basic theory to closs The faculty tries to moke classes personal to offset bigness. FLAG IN hand, AFROTC student thinks oboul post-graduation future while he waits signal to begin the march.

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 ADMINISTRATION On the cover of this book is a simple line which curves onto the cover and off. It’s part of a larger circle, too large to hr onto the maroon cover. Ir represents the incomplete job that this yearbook does—incomplete because the University is too large to be described in the about — 400 pages. And if a pictorial history of the year is difficult, administering the “U is a big job, a 24-hour a day job for a staff of highly trained specialists. These specialists have wonderful machines to aid them in their tasks. The IBM machines on this page are one example of these devices —machines w hich extend human brains and enable them to store and process data in a profusion and w ith a rapidity that is both w onderful and bewildering. Bur though the card-sorters flick their cards with ever-bewildering speed and though the tabulators spew forth their paper ribbons of data, all their mechanical industry will still not give a complete picture of the people, the ideas, the equipment from linear proton accelerators to dictaphones. thousands upon thousands of books. The busy machines w ill not be able to count the wonder of a student first discovering Plato or the stars. I hex cannot measure snow crackling under the feet of the students as they go to class in the cold air of winter. All the industrious machines and the people who use them can hope for is that as few mistakes occur as a hardworking administra-tion can avoid, that as many students get as good an education as is possible within the limitations of man's devising. And it a temper now and then trays, if a mistake is sometimes made, if an individual is once in aw hile trapped in psychological maze, it is because even ’T administrations are human.