MUCH CLERICAL WORK CAUSED BY COLLEGE REGISTRATION

Registration, Harvard's own M-day, which takes place today, tomorrow, and Monday, is almost as complicated as the selective service act and takes a staff of some 35 men about ten days to complete.

If you want the inside dope on how all those documents get in your registration envelopes, and what happens to them after you fill them out, you'll have to look in a thirty-page "Report on Harvard College Registration" prepared by Leonard R. Hooper, Jr., who bossed the annual penmanship marathon last year and who is now teaching at Williams.

This year's dictator of the manila envelopes is Stanley K. Leonard, a graduate student who has run the midyear and final examinations for the past two years. Registration is Leonard's first major league assignment.

Fifty Cents an Hour

Working under him is a staff of undergraduate and graduate students, who get paid fifty cents an hour for setting up tables in Memorial Hall, handing out envelopes, checking study cards, and sorting course registration slips.

Peak hours in the Memorial Hall ratrace, according to last year's figures which are contained in Hooper's report, are between eleven and twelve o'clock on Friday, and between ten and eleven on Saturday and Monday.

Among the problems the registration staff has to deal with is parents who watch or help their sons register, press photographers, and the solicitors for student publications who operate in the corridor outside Memorial Hall.

Mothers Have to Wait

Fathers who accompany their sons are permitted to run the regisration gauntlet with their progeny, but mothers are politely seated at the east end of the Hall and told to wait.

Concerning the hungry solicitors who lurk outside Mem Hall, Hooper's report says, "The solicitors tend to wax enthusiastic . . They should be firmly dealt with . . . It will generally be found necessary to threaten them with expulsion from time to time in order to restrain their clamor."

Contrary to popular belief, old students tend to make more mistakes than new ones "because they consider that they are familiar with the procedure."