Word: proctoral
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paralysis was noted as uncommon but regular and widespread (and therefore endemic) by Britain's Dr. Michael Underwood in 1784. Sweden had the first reported epidemic of polio in 1887. Seven years later came the first U.S. epidemic, in Vermont's Otter Creek Valley. Around Rutland and Proctor there was no fewer than 119 paralytic cases. By brilliant horse & buggy epidemiology, Dr. Charles S. Caverly concluded that the old endemic infantile paralysis and the new epidemic polio were one and the same disease...
...proctors now in the Yard, 11 have Corporation appointments as members of the Freshman Adviser Board, and Watson expects the figure to reach 20 next year. Under the revised system only about half of a proctor's advisers will be residents of his entry, however...
...inter-college police system, designed to exchange information on college thieves and make speedy arrests, will start operations April 5, following a meeting at Columbia University to discuss details, Charles C. Pyne, Assistant to the Administrative Vice-President, and Michael Kopliner, proctor at Princeton University, said yesterday. All Ivy schools except Brown are involved in the programs...
John Vernon Patrick, Jr. '52, adviser to the Freshman Union committee and proctor in the Yard, said the positive values of Tuesday's Smoker are considerable, and the kind that might occur at any time...
...lights, there were some compensations. Grays proved the ideal spot for dropping water bombs on passing Yard cops, and its decadent fixtures inspired residents to make their own electrical gadgets. This temporary surge of spirit caused the only recorded use of fire ropes in University history; a proctor locked himself in his room and after hours of fruitless effort, he turned from the door and slid down from his window...