Word: proctoral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Curley had fought his conviction and sentence through U.S. Appellate and Supreme Courts, and lost. Last week, in the Washington District Court of Judge James M. Proctor, he made a final effort to beat the rap. But despite doctors' affidavits saying that Curley suffered from nine dangerous afflictions, and Curley's dramatic pleas for clemency, Judge Proctor was unmoved. Said he: "I think the defendant should be committed today." Said Curley: "You are sentencing me to death. There should be some less punishment than that." Said the Judge: "Penal institutions are staffed and equipped to care for prisoners...
Their nerves taut from worry and lack of sleep, a good number of students will resent the ubiquitous exam proctor as he casually walks around the room and stays close to people going out for a cigarette. The reason there is no honor system at Harvard is not because the students are immature or dishonest, but because the College has many men and little social compactness. Another reason is that the complaints have never been very loud...
...state of Texas in its self-sufficient attitude toward the rest of the University. Physically the most isolated of the Houses, and injected with the most rambunctious and tightly-knit spirit, residents scorn secession from their neighbors, sure in the conviction that the summer winds blow cooler and the proctor's beer flows freer...
Stanley Leonard is the present Plato of proctoring. At least once in every examination given by the University his short, stocky figure makes an appearance, sheathed in a collegiate overcoat and topped with a fine head of gray-streaked hair parted in the middle. His bearing is impressive and authoritative, and he is ready to tackle any sort of knotty problem which may be baffling his underlings. To cite one instance out of many, a proctor had begun to suspect an examinee of resorting to a crib sheet, but wasn't sure enough to make an issue...
Most Harvardians never see the Head Proctor except when they are at their psychological worst, eyes glazed, fingers aching, brain whirling; and the idea is thus prevalent that he is some sort of evil genius who emerges from under the eaves only at such moments, expressly to interfere with their trains of thought. Actually he has interests which extend well beyond the dismal confines of Memorial and New Lecture Halls and Emerson D. He cuts quite a figure locally at the Cambridge Skating Club. But whenever his inquistional activities give him enough time off, he hurries north to his farm...