Nevertheless, Harvard is working hard to keep abreast of current innovations and has even managed to institute some unique and unprecedented programs.

As if communicating in "computer language" is not difficult enough, computers at the Classics Department can not "talk back" in Greek, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, and even Coptic.

Simply by pressing a special key, the computer will change its language to one of the foreign offerings, according to Crane.

Currently, this system is used mainly by senior faculty members working on research, graduate students, and undergraduates working on theses.

In other plans to move Socrates into the Space Age, the department will begin to print art and publish material through these machines in the near future.

Crane said that the department is one of the leaders among the country. "Everyone is interested in doing this type of work, but no one has gotten it together to pull it off yet."

Although the program was originated by the Classics Department, other branches of the University, including the Divinity School, the English Department, and the Russian Research Center, all use the system.

Business School students are also employing their computers for their studies.

In the "Business Game," they deal with business problems such as marketing, advertising and production.

Students are organized into groups of six and meet once a week for seven weeks. It allows them to handle problems in a simulated competitive business environment. The game even provides an opportunity for faculty participation as members of the "companies'" boards of directors, where they are able to advise the students.

In another move to expand its computer program last summer, the B-School initiated a program to teach corporate executives how to use computers for case work. Fifty-two senior corporate executives, most of whom had never been exposed to computers before, used the machines to analyze six cases each.

In a simulated setting, they dealt with sales, cost, and financing to plan their sales and management strategies which even included a mock merger situation. "It's hard to compare the Business School with other business schools since we're much more reality-oriented," a B-School administrator said, adding. "Harvard's programs are in a class by themselves."

'What's good for the College is not always good for the Med School or the Business School.'

--Marcus R. Van Baalen, manager of data systems

At the Law School, computers are being used to supplement lectures and give students an opportunity to work out legal problems on their own. The Computer Aid Instruction Program, the first and only program of its kind in the country, allows the students to test their legal skills on problem sets in areas ranging from corporate law to income tax on the two Langdell Library computers reserved for the project.