Word: proctor
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Also active in extracurricular activities are Elms, who is in charge of several Dudley athletics, and Murphy, a member of the Catholic Club and the Dudley swimming team. Hines also belongs to the Catholic Club, while Lloyd is the Dudley senior proctor, and Newton is active on the Dudley Improvement Committee...
...short: we must tighten the system. Trap the culprits. Let the student know that the proctor is watching over his shoulder, ready to pounce. Once the student realizes that there is no chance for evil, he will become much more relaxed. Obviously...
...While proctor-advisers are not necessarily Harvard graduates, they are carefully selected for their friendliness and interest in freshmen: last year, 110 applied for 20 jobs. Also, as graduate students, they are close to the age of the freshmen, and as one of them, "There is no real trouble in making friends within two or three weeks with almost every one of my advisees. Most of them live either down the hall or up the stairs." The closeness, however, does not lead the adviser to oversee the student's affairs. As von Stade explains: "If there is trouble, we expect...
These three types of advisers--the resident proctor who has a chance to know his advisees well, the non-resident adviser who nevertheless tries to be something more than a mere giver of directions, and the non-resident who may become a good friend of his advisee but who sees his main job as cutting through Harvard red tape--cannot be arbitrarily separated. At any one time or with any one student, any of these advisers may cross over into the other's territory with no thought at all about a theory of advising. An advising system as amorphous...
Another problem, noticed especially by the students themselves, is the lack of the use of the Union dining hall by many advisers. Proctor-advisers, of course, receive 600 meals free at the Union, and they are usually much in evidence. But the teaching fellows, those in part-time Corporation appointments who live neither in the Yard nor in the Houses, receive for each advisee, $22 and only three free meals per term. and those on full-time appointments--members of the Administration, professors, or House tutors, receive no compensation beyond six meals on the Union per year per advisee. Many...