I liked this part: "the student is treated in no way differently from the faculty or staff in the nature of...contact with the processing capacity of the computer." Says a lot about the hierarchy of the period (as does the use of "his contact" in the original...)

This is ironic to me because I have seen that the other way from usual: in 1984 I was a TA at Stanford for a class whose students were grad students and faculty in the philosophy department (I was part of a team at PARC developing a new programming language relevant to the work at the newly formed CSLI). Most of them had never touched a computer before. Some of the faculty didn't enjoy being "students" again, and many didn't do the homework.

And a couple of years before I was taking a humanities class at MIT. A special section of 6.001 (introduction to programming, taught in Scheme) was being offered to the faculty. He asked me for help with the homework.

This was at a time when I think the majority of MIT undergraduates arrived without having used a computer more powerful than a pocket calculator.