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William Martin Proctor, Ph.D., Lecturer on Secondary Education (Graduate School of Education...
VERMONT: Redfield Proctor is Governor of the state and General Superintendent of the Vermont Marble Co. of Proctor. A fire broke out in the plant, and he led the volunteer fire department in putting...
...Proctor, the professional gambler and scientific poker player, made it a rule never to "come in" on less than "three of a kind", except very occasionally on a deliberate bluff. This "great American pastime" has been compared to politics, but incidents in which an opponent has been scared off are very rare indeed, and, needless to say, have never occurred in a presidential election. As matters now stand, political gamesters of both parties are admitting that the Republicans have a disadvantage, because they are not in a position to win on a bluff. And in a "show-down...
...progress of the "Granta" been more than adequate. Two of the best "scoops" of the term have been a disconsolate letter from "Q" demonstrating the futility of many of his correspondents, and "revelations" made by Mr. Glover, the Public Orator, as regards the life and habits of the Proctor, which office he himself held a short while back. Incidentally this article inspired an editorial "Should a Proctor Tell." The question was answered in the affirmative...
...paper was Mr. Francis Child Faulkner '74. The other editors on the original board, all members of the class of 1874, were Messrs. Eugene Nelson Aston, Henry Alden Clark, Samuel Belcher Clarke, Thomas Corlies, George Erwin Haven, Edward Higginson, Charles Austin mackintosh, Henry Childs Merwin, and Calvin Proctor Sampson. Of these first editors, only four Messrs. Clark, Clarke, Merwin, and Sampson are alive today...