<p>I cracked up at this paragraph in the first edition of the Phoenix. Registrar Martin Warner commenting on the use of on-line course registration for first-year students:</p>
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The switch to online registration, however, did remove what had become somewhat of a rite of passage at Swarthmore: the anxious wait to register for classes that marks most students first academic experience. We took away the opportunity to bond around pain and suffering. Hopefully the first-years will have other chances, Warner said.
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