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Word: proctor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...examination room. You cannot make a man morally strong by making him feel that he is watched. Men must be made to know that confidence is placed in their honor. Professor James has tried the plan. At the hour examinations given to his classes this year and last, no proctor was placed in the room. It was then that the real force of public opinion was felt. No man dared to cheat. Each man felt that the shame would be tenfold greater than if he should be caught cheating under the eye of a proctor. The element of daring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 2/1/1888 | See Source »

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Among the many complaints which are annually made in regard to the mid-year examinations, there is one which is certainly justifiable. If we must have a police force of proctors to spy upon us during examinations to see that we don't cheat, converse, or otherwise misbehave ourselves, why cannot we have detectives endowed with a little delicacy of feeling? At an examination yesterday, the man in front of me finished his paper about three-quarters of an hour before the time was up. Immediately a proctor strolled along, his boots creaking like the doors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 1/31/1888 | See Source »

...scheme proposed was this-that the faculty should allow any club of students who should severally guarantee the club's honor and get a member of the faculty to be their sponsor, to have examinations without a proctor. This scheme, to my great surprise, found no one but its author to defend it. Men said that it would be hard to get many groups of a dozen or more men to go bail for each other's honors in this way; that certain groups of men might form such clubs for the express purpose of cheating; that a club honestly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 1/25/1888 | See Source »

...appointed, and Charles T. Dunbar, members of the council of the library for three years, from Jan. 1, 1888. William Gray, Henry J. Bigelow and Henry Lee were elected trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts for four years from Jan. 1, 1888. Otto Reinhardt Hausen was appointed as proctor for 1887-8; Frederick Edward Cheney, M. D., instructor in ophthalmology for the remainder of the year; James Russell Lowell, L. L. D., Smith professor emeritus; Walcott Gibb, M. D., L. L. D., Rumford professor emeritus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appointment of Overseers. | 1/13/1888 | See Source »

...Coach. - J. H. Proctor, F. H. Bent, H. C. Bent, J. B. Crocker, G. L. Dublois, Phillip Marguand, C. Green, E. W. Grew, R. V. de W. Walsh, W. Rantoul, F. E. Zinkeisen, G. P. Butters, G. S. McPherson, W. S. Scott, T. Talbot, W. H. Butters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/26/1887 | See Source »

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