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Just think of how the grown-ups in the dean's office must feel. They builded better than they knew when they selected as proctors individuals young enough to understand the child mind. The day may still be saved, however, if the idea is carried far enough. Incase the proctor's committee is at its wit's end, it may be well to offer a few suggestions. The writing-out idea is a good one especially as it may keep the proctors out of harms way correcting papers. After mid-years the stint will probably have to be extended...
...Lecture Hall at quarter past three yesterday afternoon five proctors started to distribute the ancient author examinations in Sophocles. At seventeen minutes past the proctor in the middle aisle ran out of papers. He thought for a moment, then he went to the central desk. He obtained the remaining papers and distributed them. There was still a fringe of snapping fingers in the outer seats and there were no more examination papers. Precisely enough had been printed to supply those who had registered for the examination. The arrival of several unregistered examinees had left the proctors in the situation...
...quarter of four a proctor ascended and told them to stop smoking...
...divided inadvertencies has little point, particularly in this admittedly extraordinary instance. Undergraduates find little fault with the conduct of examinations at Harvard in such matters of principle as the question of the honor system. Certain of its mechanics, however, are rather less than satisfactory. There is something about the proctor who giggles over the examination paper just before the official moment of release, who never has the ink at hand, or who is unprepared for a request of second bluebooks during a three hour examination, that sicklies over with the pale cast of inefficiency all the admirably handled examinations that...
Professor Gardner is at present a member of the firm of Goodwin, Proctor, Field, and Hoar of Boston, and was formerly a member of the firm of Hale and Grinnell. While he was at Harvard he made an excellent scholastic record, graduating from the College in 1912 cum laude, and from the Law School in 1914 cum laude, close to the top of his class. While in the Law School he was editor of the Law Review for two years...