Word: proctor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several of the more exuberant participants in the little party that followed the official entertainment were roughly escorted to the door in a mist of beer. One proctor, with damp stains on his rain-coat, boasted, "I've got five bursar's cards...
...examination room, pretended to scribble furiously for three hours, and then left without handing in a blue-book. When University officials called him in several days later, demanding to know where the missing examination was, he indignantly replied that he certainly had handed it in and suggested that a proctor must have misplaced it. He even presented a postmarked postcard as evidence that he had actually handed in a book. There seemed nothing for the University to do but grant him a make-up test--nothing, that is, until someone happened to glance at the postmark again. The card...
...permitted students to take examinations outside of Cambridge, even in foreign countries. One student who had to be in Cairo struggled out of bed in the middle of the night to take the test at exactly the same time as his classmates in Cambridge. For even the special proctor could not have intercepted a cablegram beginning "Examination in History...
Sometimes special proctors for itinerant students carry their sense of duty rather far. Once a student received permission to take a few minutes out from an examination to serve as best man at a friend's wedding. A proctor was delegated to accompany him and the two hurried to the church together, just in time for the start of the service. When the minister called for the ring a few minutes later, he received a mild surprise, for two men stepped forward. One was the best man. Right at his side was the proctor, faithful...
...glee club sang, the throng pushed through the Yard gates onto Massachusetts Avenue. There, they halted traffic and a few climbed on cars. The only casualty of the evening resulted after a freshman tried to pull off the wire of a trackless trolley. He cut himself when a Yard proctor pulled him down...