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...Hall, '80, has been appointed proctor in place of Kittredge, '82, resigned...
Members of Physics 4 received a pleasant surprise on going to the examination Tuesday. After waiting half an hour for their papers a proctor was sent after them, who, returning, reported that the examination had entirely slipped the mind of the professor in charge, who had consequently neglected to prepare any paper - a case of absent-mindedness only equalled perhaps by that of the professor who once on inquiring for his mail at the post-office, was unable to give his own name to the clerk, and departed highly indiguant at the obtuseness of the latter in failing to understand...
Secondly, let the proctors keep still, if they can, and let them discard squeaky boots. Common sense alone ought to keep them from walking about, except to answer inquiries, and they can watch us just as well from one end or one side of the room, or from the middle, if they will only stay there. A proctor ought to know before he comes to an examination whether his boots creak or not; if they do, he can get a pair of felt slippers for sixty-five cents. Or if he sits down, as he ought...
Thirdly, if the professor cannot remain during the examination, let him coach a proctor on the questions of the paper; or else let us have a proctor whose specialty lies in the subject of the paper. Not that his function would be treacherously assistive, but conservatively explicative. I remember how at the admission examination they gave me Pierce's table of logarithms, which was entirely different from old six-place table I had used. I could do nothing with it, and so I asked a proctor to explain it. I was very much shocked when he explained to me that...
...regards that frequent subject of agitation, the entire abolition of proctors, there is this much to be aid. First, notwithstanding the cry that their surveillance is an unjust imputation on our honor, it is nevertheless true, as experience also has proved, that there are some few students who, if they were not watched, would not be able to resist the temptation to fill out their examination books by some unlawful assistance; and taking into consideration the deturs, scholarships, commencement rank, membership of the Phi Beta Kappa, - all of which depend primarily upon the marks at examinations - it is only fair...