Word: proctor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman from Thayer Hall returned to Cambridge at 9:30 a.m. yesterday to end both a 38-hour surprise vacation and the worries of parents, proctor, and police...
...rules caused remarkably little trouble at the College. As a senior member of the Faculty recalls, "In those days nobody particularly wanted girls around anyway." Most undergraduates of the time lived not in College-owned dormitories, but in rooming houses scattered around the Square. These houses, though lacking official proctors, were run by immensely respectable old ladies, whose strict enforcement of propriety would make today's Masters seem irresponsible rakes by comparison. Parietal rules in rooming establishments and dormitories at that time were strict and simple: no lady could enter a student's room at any hour without a parent...
...cautious Yard proctor stopped an energetic Christmas card salesman last night from selling to Matthews Hall freshmen and turned him over to University police for peddling without permission...
...salesman, who were a bright red jacket, was selling 18 cards for $1.25. After soliciting about 20 freshmen, he made the mistake of knocking on the door of proctor Daniel Steiner '54. Steiner asked him if he had permission to sell, and whether he had a bursar's card. The red-jacketed youth said he didn't have one "this year," but was a student in Lowell House, even though he lacked a card...
...first student to think he was being hoaxed was William Ware '59 of Thayer Hall. Ware said he became suspicious when he asked them for their bursar's cards, and they could not produce any. After he gave them his two dollars he notified his proctor who directed him to the police...