Word: proctor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...special meeting of the board of overseers held in Boston Thursday, it was voted to concur with the president and fellows in appointing Arthur Prescott Lothrop, A. B., as proctor; William Baker Hills, M. D., assistant professor of chemistry for five years, from September 1, 1884; to concur in the vote to abolish the professorship of ancient patristic and modern Greek, established by the vote of April 28, 1860. The vote of the president and fellows, electing John Williams White professor of Greek, was laid over under the rules of the board. It was voted that the annual report...
EDITOR HERALD-CRIMSON.-In yesterday's issue of your paper, "Proctor" attempts to prove that the temperature of Mass. Was comfortable during the examination in History 2, because he did not open any windows. If there is no heat in an old building like Massachusetts and the temperature without is but a little above zero, the warmth of the room is hardly suitable for an examination, even if the windows are not open. Besides, the cold seems much more severe to a man who is sitting on a hard bench, cramped and motionless, than it does to another...
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...passing through the tail of a comet, but this does not seem to be plausible as no nucleus to it has as yet been descried in any direction. Some scientists pretend that the redness is due to frozen moisture through which the sun refracts its rays, and Professor Proctor states that we may possibly be passing through a stratum of meteoric dust, or in other words pulverized meteors. The theory which has attracted most attention is that the Java earthquakes of last autumn raised such a cloud of mica dust that it ascended to a great height...
...stumbled up the steep and crooked stairs of Holworthy and at length tumbled in an inglorious heap before Professor-then plain Mr.-Sophocles' door. The usual consequences followed, and on awaking next morning the student had a painful if vague impression of having had an interview with the proctor. Gathering himself together he went down to see what might be effected by an apology. He explained to Mr. Sophocles that the had not fully command of himself, and concluded by hoping that if he had used any unbecoming or disrespectful language the officer would overlook it in consideration...