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...ordinary university proctor walked into some University of Chicago examination rooms one day last week his first impulse would have been to cry "Un-fair!", to throw every student out for flagrant cheating. Row on row sat students with question sheets before them. But instead of scratching their heads and staring desperately out windows nearly every one was busily thumbing through textbooks and lecture notes...
...lack of knowledge of their job that they do not even get to bat. Even older men who are in constant communication with the undergraduate department in their own fields, have grown out of touch with undergraduate feelings and problems in the broader sense. That ideal adviser, the Yard proctor, exists in the minority...
...position of Freshman proctor is much sought after, largely because of a prevailing but fallacious notion that it affords a soft berth with free bed and board and no arduous routine duties attached. However, those who are in a position to recall incidents of their supposedly halcyon freshman days in the Yard, will recall that the duties of the office, like Bacon's intellect, take all the world of human affairs as their province. The number of embarrassing incidents such as the recent affaire Wigglesworth, in which three Freshmen were caught in the toils of the law for throwing milkbottles...
Tommy Bilodean will probably start on the mound for the Harvard nine, although Proctor Avon is listed for the position. It is doubtful whether Dick Walsh will play any of the game after his stiff workout against the Danvers squad. Jayvees To Play Teachers' HARVARD BRIDGEWATER Gallagher, cf. c., Meler O'Brien, 1b. ss., Glenn McGoodwin, lf. 1b., Klernan Connolly, 3b. 2b., Bowles Lockwood, ss. 3b., Feeling Lee, rf. p., Whitcomb Carr, 2b. cf., Aherne Thom, c. rf., Barrows Wood or Victor, p. lf., Kelleher...
Thsi new lineup was very effective in stopping the attack of the Jumbos who started strongly in the first two innings. Proctor Avon twirled his pitches to bewilder the lumbering elephants, Bilowy Tom was crashing his hits far into the outfield, and in general the team had rallied from the effect of their defeat by St. John's on Saturday...