Word: letting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Secondly, let the proctors keep still, if they can, and let them discard squeaky boots. Common sense alone ought to keep them from walking about, except to answer inquiries, and they can watch us just as well from one end or one side of the room, or from the middle, if they will only stay there. A proctor ought to know before he comes to an examination whether his boots creak or not; if they do, he can get a pair of felt slippers for sixty-five cents. Or if he sits down, as he ought...
Thirdly, if the professor cannot remain during the examination, let him coach a proctor on the questions of the paper; or else let us have a proctor whose specialty lies in the subject of the paper. Not that his function would be treacherously assistive, but conservatively explicative. I remember how at the admission examination they gave me Pierce's table of logarithms, which was entirely different from old six-place table I had used. I could do nothing with it, and so I asked a proctor to explain it. I was very much shocked when he explained to me that...
...that should cause our proctors to be retained, and that is this: their presence at examinations, however superfluous it may seem to some, at least harms nobody, while the proctorships offer to deserving graduates an easy way of earning money that does not come amiss to most of them. Let us bear in mind that proctors are mortals like ourselves. A good many people are under the same hallucination that Phyllis was in "Iolanthe," until she found out with surprise that the fairy, Iolanthe, "kisses just like other people." Proctors, on close inspection, are found to be surprisingly like other...
...then, obvious that on no account could an apology be expected of Harvard when she was conscious of no wrong doing? The spirit of this challenge was right and amiable, and for their good sense in accepting it the students are to be congratulated. Let these malcontents therefore regard this matter in an impartial light, and not permit themselves to quibble over an imaginary slight. - [Columbia Spectator...
...Let every advantage be given to, the men who are working for the college or their class, but let them try to use their privileges in such a manner as to interfere as little as possible with the rights of others who desire to exercise...