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...were carefully sorted out in the Yard in a caste system. The floor I lived on in Thayer there was only one real upper-class type-Lewis Jefferson Proctor [St. Paul's]. His father was head of American Telephone for South America. He died in 1958 of sheer decadence on the Riviera...
...American educator who feels harried by student protests might consider the state of learning at some schools in India. When a proctor at Satna College in Madhya Pradesh complained that students were copying examination answers from their textbooks, the students staged a minor riot. At Mainpuri a proctor who caught students cribbing was hacked to death with knives. In Gorakhpur, a high school student brought his homicidal Alsatian dog to bare his fangs at any teacher who tried to interfere with his right to cheat. Cheating, of course, is not much of an issue on U.S. campuses these days. With...
After dinner, Burriss, Young 55, assistant dean of Freshmen and proctor of Massachusetts Hall, read a letterform, the President and Fellows that declared, "This anniversary shall be celebrated this evening with reverence, thanksgiving, decorum, and all degrees of gravity, merriment, and appropriate piping, clangor, and percussion sound...
...proponents of the Harvard system applaud its personal approach and the accessibility of its advising personnel. But Harvard freshmen, partied and befriended all year ("He was a great guy, even if he didn't know very much," said a student about his proctor), are left alone at critical moments. As one secretary in Fay House put it. "Harvard prides itself on its personal approach, but at concentration time, it's Haravrd that simply posts notices and expects freshmen to see them, and Radcliffe that sends each girl her own packet of information...
...Jewet, a proctor who traditionally stocks his dorm with jocks, overloaded his dorm with basketball players this year. Holworthy was able to use two platoons for most of the season. The one night they lacked depth they lost their only game of the season, to Thayer South. Holworthy's victim in the finals...