Word: proctor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...response, one proctor offered a detailed description of many of the undergraduates that proctor oversees—including a passage describing two undergraduates as “so self-centered that they have trouble even imagining another person’s point of view...
...think freshman year would have been easier both on them and on their roommates had they come to Harvard a year later,” added the proctor, who mistakenly sent a copy of the e-mail to a Crimson reporter...
...mail also addresses the social difficulties of some students overseen by the proctor, especially those hailing from foreign cultures...
...concerns about someone coming who you really wanted but it might be a stretch, [admissions officers] might ask, ‘how are things going? Why are things working–whether it was a good adviser or seasoned proctor or rooming,” Dingman says. “Admissions can tuck it away and say when we advise for the next round, this is something we should be alerting [advisers...
...College recognized this obvious truth and acted in loco parentis to educate not only students minds but also their bodies and souls. There are still vestiges of this mentality left. The College has, for instance, decided that freshmen need more rules than upperclassmen, and that is why the freshman proctor is more an enforcer than an advisor. Randomization itself was a heavy-handed, top-down decision to alter upperclass housing that had nothing to do with education by books per se; it was a decision about which groups ranging from the UC to this newspaper’s editorial board...