T - Y MICN AMIL Tabulating Service Functions as U' Brain I , - - * * * * * * Ai -Daily-Carlyle Marshall MECHANICAL HANDS-Edward Zumbroegel of the University Tabulating Service removes cards from the "sorter" which automatically sorts and counts the records at a rate of more than 400 a minute. Machines Give iStatstical Data By JIM BROWN Almost suggestive of a grotesque copy of an engineering labora- tory, the Tabulating Service on the fourth floor of the Administration Building acts as the mechanical brain center of the University. Headed by Kurt Benjamin, formerly of the Graduate Record Ex- amination of the Carnegie Foundation and the Industrial Surveys Company, the Service prepares statistical analysis reports for several University units such as the Registrar's Office, the Survey Research Center and the. Business Office. IN ADDITION, it makes statistical analysis reports for any othei University unit, or for individual faculty members and graduate stu- dents who are conducting special research projects with financial backing. To make these reports, seven different types of machines are employed. Rented from the International Business Machines Cor- poration, these machines are the most up-to-date equipment available. "Most of the equipment is very flexible, the machine being in- structed what to do on the basis of a control panel which somewhat resembles a telephone switchboard," Benjamin said. * * * * THE MOST COMPLICATED of the machines are the three "Tab- ulators" which list, add and substract information punched on cards and perform complicated combinations of these functions. Six "Key Punches" are employed which are the basic units that record information by punching holes in the special cards. After this operation, the accuracy of the "Key Punches" is checked by one of the five "Verifiers." To eliminate the tedious job of sorting, counting and arranging cards, six "Sorters" are used which can handle between 400 and 450 cards a minute. The sorted cards are then turned over to the "Inter- pretor" which mechanically reads the information which is recorded by the punched holes and prints it on the cards. TWO "REPRODUCERS" are used to transfer the punches from one set of cards to another in any desired order, verify this transfer, and, when attached to tabulator record groups totals. In addition, two "Collators" are available which match dif- ferent decks of cards and pull out matched or unmatched groups or refile cards. To operate these complex machines, Benjamin has a staff of be- tween 25 and 30 people. A limited number of students are employed. . * * * * THE TABULATING SERVICE is run as a self-supporting unit, charging other University departments and individuals on a cost basis. Very rarely they take outside work when it doesn't interfere with University work. In this case a higher rate is charged. One of the major projects handled by the Service every year is the tabulating of student grades, along with individual and group honor point averages for the Registrar's Office. Recently, another statistical study done by the Service helped to analyze the faculty evaluation data collected by the literary college and the engineering school. AWAY FROM I ALL: scholarship Applications Accepted Applications are now being ac- cepted for the scholarships and fellowships established through the $10,000 gift by the Curtiss- Wright Corporation to the Univer- sity. Seven $1,000 fellowships and six $500 scholarships will be distrib- uted over a three-year period to qualified students interested in aircraft propulsion and in air- frame and power-plant manufac- turing and production. * * * TWO SCHOLARSHIPS and one fellowship will be awarded this fall. Scholarships will go to stu- dents who have completed at least their freshman year with above average academic standing, and who are partially self-supporting. The fellowship will go to an American citizen who ca~n meet graduate school entrance require- ments, with the expectation that he will obtain a master's degree in aeronautical engineering la -Daily-Carlyle Marshall MECHANICAL BRAIN-Mrs. Alice Ellsworth of the University Tabulating Service is shown operating one of the Service's "Tabu- lators." The complex machine automatically lists and punches information on special record cards. t 4 t . _ r Riding Horses For Hire EXCEPTIONALLY FINE NEW HORSES Instructions Available SPECIAL STUDENT RATES Golfside Stables GENE BLAND, Mgr. ~-3250 E. Huron River Dr. Ph. 7772 TT X - . Are YOU the kind of girl who sits and / KNITS .. *0 Olsen Opens Educational Conference Prof. Willard C. Olson, Director of Research on child development at University Elementary School, will open the twentieth annual Parent Education Institute at 9 a.m. today in the Rackham Build- ing. As part of the conference which is being jointly sponsored by the Michigan Congress of Parents and Teachers and the University Ex- tension Service, Prof. Olson will conduct a class on the emotional development of the child. PROF. H. H. GILES, of the edu- cation school, a director of the Center for Human Relations Stud-, ies at New York University, will conclude the morning session with his lecture on Human Relations. During the afternoon, discus- sion periods on The Child inthe Home and the Child in School will be held. Prof. Karl Stern, chief of the gerontological unit of the psychi- atry department at McGill Uni- versity, will address the evening meeting of the Institute on the Oldster in Home and Family Life. His talk will be open to the general public without charge. REGISTRATION for the two day conference will take place at 8:15 a.m. today in the foyer of the Rackham Building. Today's Pro grams MYSTERY-9 p.m. WHRV-Boris Karloff. 9:30 p.m. WHRV-The Croup- ier. VARIETY-9:30 p.m. WJR-Bing Crosby Show with Bob Hope. NEWS-7:45 p.m. WJR--Edward R. Murrow. FOOTBALL - 8 p.m. WXYZ - Touchdown: Telecast of Ohio State vs. Northwestern game. MUSIC - 11:30 p.m. CKLW - Deems Taylor. Union Coffee Hour Today The second in the current series of student faculty coffee hours will be held from 4-5 p.m. today in the Union's Terrace Room. This week students and faculty of the sociology department are the honored guests. These Union-sponsored coffee hours 'are designed to give stu- dents and faculty members an opportunity to discuss their mu- tual problems over a refreshing cup of coffee. "Coffee hours are excellent oc- casions for ,students to meet their professors." 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Kuhns emphasized that the In- tercultural Department is open to people of all races and religions. "By giving American and foreign students a chance to work, eat and play together, we hope to under- stand each other's viewpoints better," he declared. MONTHLY meetings held at the homes of various faculty members feature discussions on current problems. Recreation at the meet- ings includes party games and singing of foreign folk songs in the original languages. Besides Kuhns, other co- chairmen of the Interculture Committee are D. B. Dutt, Grad., of India; and Edith Lind- ner, Spec., from Germany. Retreats are held as often as possible at places like the Detroit Recreation Camp at Brighton, and Pinebrook, northeast of Whitmore Lake. Students do all necessary work on the trips, including cook- ing and housekeeping. They sleep in cabins. * * * RESERVATIONS for this week's retreat must be made in Lane Hall by 6 p.m. Friday, Kuhns said. 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