Word: monitors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practical move of abolishing monitors, that is unthinkable. One generation after another of Harvard men has shivered at an icy breath on the nape of the neck, and then turned to see only a kindly monitor whiling away part of the three hours by reading over his shoulder. One after another has listened to the padding of feet up and down the aisles, and started as a snort from the desk indicates that the fun of communal blue-book reading has begun, and shrunk when the cold glint in a proctor's eye shows he is wondering why you look...
...what does he find when he enters the place of examination? The room is patrolled by monitors whose occupation, when not handing out note books is to glare suspiciously; and this they do for three hours. They have little faith in the student's power to resist temptation. They put him by himself with three or four empty seats between him and his neighbor, as if he were a moral leper. I don't precisely know what happens when the monitor catches someone cheating, but probably the criminal is expelled with indignation; is hailed before a dean; sermonized and expelled...