The Dawn of Computer Dating

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Dan Slater, Love in the technology era. Finding a date by computer is commonplace today. Not so in 1965, when two student-run companies at Harvard rushed to usher in a new era of mating. Boston Globe Magazine, Jan 13, 2013.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/magaz ... Jm0CUJjN/story.html

Note:
(a) Adapted from

Dan Slater, Love in the Time of Algorithms. What Technology Does to Meeting and Mating. Current, 2013.
http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781591845317,00.html
(b) Look magazine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_(American_magazine)
(a bi-weekly published by Gardner "Mike" Cowles Jr and his brotehr John; "published in Des Moines, Iowa, from 1937 to 1971, with more of an emphasis on photographs than articles. A large-size magazine of 11 by 14 inches, it was generally considered the also-ran to Life magazine, which began publication months earlier [in 1936, published by Time] and ended in 1972")
(c) Hand over fist. The Phrase Finder, undated.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/hand-over-fist.html

(d) Whatever happens to the main characters:
(i) T Jay Mathews, Operation Match. The Harvard Crimson, Nov 3, 1965
http://www.thecrimson.com/articl ... ch-pif-you-stop-to/
("Jeffrey C Tarr '66, David L Crump '66, and Douglas H Ginsburg, are president and vice-presidents respectively of a corporation known as Compatibility Research, Inc")

There is no need to read the rest of the report from The Harvard Crimson, the daily student newspaper of Harvard University founded in 1873.
(ii) Weddings/Celebrations: Jennifer Tarr, Christopher Coyne. New York Times, July 11, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/1 ... istopher-coyne.html
("Her father [Jeff Tarr of New York] is the chairman of Junction Advisors, an investment management company in [Manhattan,] New York")
(iii) David Crump, John B Neibel Professor of Law University of Houston Law Center, undated
http://www.law.uh.edu/faculty/main.asp?PID=9
("Professor Crump earned his BA from Harvard College, where he concentrated in Chemistry. Before going to law school, he was an aerospace engineer at the NASA-MSC. He received his JD from the University of Texas")
Pembroke College in Brown University
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pembroke_College_in_Brown_University
(1891-1971)
(iv) I find little about Vaughan Morrill. It appears that he has a small namesake company established in 2001 and located at 580 Dielman Road, St Louis, MO.
(v) David Leonhardt, The Famous Founder of Operation Match. New York Times, Mar 28, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/28/business/29leonside.html?_r=0
(Once a Cornell dropout and now the chief judge of US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Douglas Ginsburg "used the proceeds to help pay for the rest of his education at Cornell. He then attended law school at the University of Chicago and returned to Harvard to become a professor")
(vi)
(A) David Dewan was vice president of product strategy at SilverStream Software, Inc, which was acquired by Novell in 2002.
(B) DAVID DEWAN, Class of 1961. Niskayuna High School, Schenectady, NY. Classmate.com, undated (member since 2000)
http://www.classmates.com/people/David-Dewan/4342682
("Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1961-1965)[;] Harvard University - Business (1967-1969)"
(C) University Police Eject Man From Winthrop House. The Harvard Crimson, Sept 30, 1965,
http://www.thecrimson.harvard.ed ... -man-from-winthrop/
(vii) A few Harvard or Yale men and women have reached the pinnacle of the world (in three branches of governments, for example). But many more labor in obscurity. Dr Morris CHANG, CEO of TSMC, always fondly remembers his undergraduate days at Harvard, saying his schoolmates polymaths and intellectually stimulating. My personal experience with Harvard and MIT people (students and faculty) informs my conviction that they are just ordinary folks like you and me. Dr David Baltimore, a Nobel laureate in Medicine at age 37, while a PhD student at Rockefeller University looked the illustrious faculty down his nose.

(e) The article mentioned Radcliffe College and Pembroke.
(i) There was a time, not long ago, that Ivy league admitted males only. So it created colleges for women, mostly often just across the street.
(ii) Radcliffe College
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radcliffe_College
(1879-1999; affiliated with Harvard College)
(iii) Pembroke College in Brown University
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pembroke_College_in_Brown_University
(1891-1971)

(f) The article said, "That he could also make a fortune by expanding the mating pool from Wheaton to Wellesley, from Pembroke to Mount Holyoke, was an afterthought."
(i) Wheaton College (Massachusetts)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheaton_College_(Massachusetts)
(a four-year, private liberal arts college; located in Norton, Massachusetts [halfway between Boston and Providence, Rhode Island); Founded in 1834 as a female seminary [created by judge Laban Wheaton to memorialize his daughter], it is one of the oldest institutions of higher education for women in the United States; co-educational since 1988)

Not to be confused with
Wheaton College (Illinois)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheaton_College_(Illinois)
(a private, Christian liberal arts college in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb 25 miles (40 km) west of Chicago;  founded in 1860 by prominent abolitionist and pastor Jonathan Blanchard)
(ii) Mount Holyoke College
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Holyoke_College
(a liberal arts college for women [with masster's program] in South Hadley, Massachusetts; founded in 1837 by Mary Lyon; The college is named after the westernmost mountain of the range Mount Holyoke which was named by colonial surveyors in the 1600s)

(g) The article quoted, "No dogs please."

dog (n):
"8: one inferior of its kind <the movie was a dog>: as
a : an investment not worth its price
b : an undesirable piece of merchandise
9: an unattractive person; especially : an unattractive girl or woman"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dog

(h) The article next, and last, stated, "'The girl you sent me didn’t have much upstairs,' wrote a third, from Northwestern, 'but what a staircase!'
(i) I am uncertain what "upstairs" refers to. Brain?
(ii) Chapter V  Sex in Dreams. In Sigmund Freud, Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners. New York: The James A McCann Company, 1921
http://www.bartleby.com/288/5.html
("Staircases, ladders, and flights of stairs, or climbing on these, either upwards or downwards, are symbolic representations of the sexual act")