Word: proctoral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From my point of vantage the "official" attitude on the subject seems to be that the proctor receives his appointment with one chief aim in view. And that is to assist the students to fulfill all University rules and regulations with regard to examinations with a minimum of error and to assist the University itself to administer the vast and complicated procedures of the examination period...
Please don't print my name, because I hope to make more money by serving at Exams, for the money, not the fun; and Mr. Leonard might not be inclined to use me much if he saw my name. A Proctor (Name withheld by request...
...parts may be nothing but a defense mechanism--to keep awake? For can you imagine a more monotonous occupation than three hours of watching men who need to watching, even if they are handsome, husky and dynamic Harvard men? And did you ever consider that all the average proctor has to look forward to are a PhD and immediate banishment to the wide, open spaces where, though men may be men, they're certainly not Harvard...
...valuable proctor is the discreet proctor, who remains wary but unobtrusive. He will preferably sit silently in some advantageous spot, or if he must walk, proceed on egg-shells, like a friendly phantom. He will also refrain from stage whispers with his colleagues. Indeed, the prevalence of inter-proctor communication has raised doubts that the College needs so many of these hirelings. But assuming that all proctors are necessary, it is hardly too much to ask that they be carefully instructed to act like guardian angels, instead of hotel detectives...
What troubled most girls was the prospect of supervision by an eagle-eyed proctor. "I'm fidgety enough during a final," said an Annex junior. "if I knew I couldn't write half a book; if proctors were prowling around behind me, I couldn't write...