Word: proctoral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...couple of weeks and the cab driver will ask you where you're going to school and overcharge you and the janitor in the basement of Matthews will look down a list of names and hand you a key. Your roommate may beat you to the single and your proctor may have very little of import to say but you'll have your very own piece of Harvard real estate and your own little corner of the Yard...
...university. And universities, companies, factories and institutions are not always the idyllic sorts of places that their founders and care-takers want and wish them to be. And Harvard, no matter what they say, is no different from the rest. Although you may not hear it from your proctor--who will tell you that the University Health Services will give you contraception but won't tell you that what they hand out may harm your children some day--and you surely won't hear it from Mass Hall, that doesn't mean the problems don't exist...
...Proctors, Morphos says, are not qualified to serve as academic advisers. But about 75 per cent of freshmen are assigned to their proctor as their academic adviser, isolating them from seeking faculty advice from the start. Students "need to be fired up about academics here," Morphos says, but the FDO's approach "too often is to offer extracurricular options as an alternative to connecting with the University...
...proctor of our dormitory was Joshua Whatmough, associate professor of Analytical Philology. He was an Englishman, small of stature and short on humor. We boys made life miserable for the poor man. But he liked me pretty well because I felt sorry for him and thought some of the boys went too far in teasing him. But we were all surprised (and pleased) when he got married a year or two later. We had him pegged as a lifetime bachelor. Among other things, he had a thermometer calibrated to tell him which underwear to put on at which temperature...
George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, the Reverend Charles A. Kimball, Proctor at the World Religous Center of the Divinity School, and former attorney general Ramsey Clark are among the nine Americans who have defied President Carter's April 17 travel ban to Iran to participate in a "Crimes of America" conference that started Monday in Tehran...