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"Irma," the mechanical bookkeeper, thumbs through Fall term study cards as two University Hall secretaries ply her cardboard appetite. Although "Irma" worked for free last Tuesday, her rates have now spiraled to $10 a card for tardy students.
Machines like this, now handling thousands of diverse paper jobs, have enabled the University to cut down sharply on its bookkeeping budget.
A portable mechanism, rumored to be in the development stages, also may soon be available to students. It analyzes multiple choice exams and automatically scores the right answers with 90 percent accuracy. Until its appearance, however, students will have to rely on their own efforts to furnish the marks that "Irma" will correlate next January.
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