an
attendant or
employee, usually in
uniform, who carries messages, routes people,
runs errands, etc.
So that if you want to get the staff really wheeling on their part-time study and that sort of thing, the second the Programer does so, he either himself or if you are lucky enough to have a page and so on, the guy is taken immediately and enrolled for the first course, and is taken down and put on the roll book of that course, that he is to report there at seven o'clock.