Word: beers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...study. If your first question is, "Where's the nearest bar?" your proctor will probably take you there himself. If, midway through the semester, you find yourself lost in your courses, hating your roommates, and too far from home, your proctor will invite you in, hand you a beer and a Kleenex, and listen to the whole thing. He or she might even come up with a few solutions...
...beauty of the system is that proctors are not supposed to criticize, discipline, or form your character. You are too old for that now. The proctor is supposed to perform services for mature young adults. He or she may bake cookies for the dorm every week. And buy beer for the dorm every couple of nights. And settle roommate disputes. And advise freshmen on where to get laid. The proctor is a camp counselor with a Harvard degree and a tweed suit. A person who's on the way up and who wants to save money by living...
...competitive that even a waterfight became a contest. If he lost he'd be upset for days, and he'd sneak up on people hours later with buckets full of water to drench them in revenge. The other one was an easygoing Mr. Open Door, a beer-drinking football player who took his boys out to girls' colleges on weekends. The two rarely spoke. A freshman from Thayer described a blow-by-blow battle of sexual rivalry between his proctors, one of whom was quite a stud and the other a real loser. The dorm laughed far into the night...
...freshwoman who lived in a mixed entry conceded that her proctor had been a nice guy, but a complete loser when it came to dealing with eighteen-year-old women. "He was very popular with the guys in the dorm--mainly, I think, because they were flattered to drink beer and play touch football with a 28-year-old grad student. All he could manage to say to us women were things like, 'How's your boyfriend?" I didn't have...
...course, there are a couple of out-standing proctors who do more than serve beer and play big brother. Over the years, Dean of Freshmen Burriss Young has developed somewhat of a cult around himself and his Mass Hall proctees. He reportedly gets first pick from the freshman roster in choosing the lucky few who will reside in his dorm, and there's lots of self-congratulation in Mass Hall because of this. "Burriss creates a real Old Harvard atmosphere--we were always invited to his room at night for Chinese food and worldly discussions of politics and academia," said...