Word: proctoral
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...adult students. Not high school kids who I might actually be able to teach, or even like-minded college kids who could relate to my time at Harvard. I, a naïve, 20-year-old with little life experience and even less of an authoritative presence, am a proctor for people 25 years old and older...
...both teacher and pupil at the same time. I can learn, but still be a valuable resource. I always thought that being a proctor would end up being a pretty good deal (except for the Annenberg food, which I realized I never got used to eating), but it’s ending up paying dividends in ways that I never foresaw...
...said, “Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.” Either he was talking about a different kind of intoxication than I’m visualizing, or he was never a 20-year-old proctor in the 25 and older house. Malcom A. Glenn ’09, a Crimson associate sports chair and summer managing editor, is a history concentrator in Leverett House. He agrees with the late great singer Aaliyah—age ain’t nothing but a number...
After I left Harvard in the 1980s, I did not “stay in touch.” While I truly enjoyed and appreciated my undergraduate years at Harvard, two additional years of eating in the Freshman Union and vicariously experiencing freshman angst as a Proctor in Wigglesworth kept me from ever romanticizing or becoming nostalgic for my own undergraduate days. I don’t know if it was swabbing stairwells on Sunday mornings, or chasing squirrels that tumbled down Wigg B’s chimney with a broom, or locating freshmen who had decamped to follow...
...everyone approves of the change. David J. Meskill ’88, Mass. Hall’s longtime proctor, claims that its residents “are at least as happy, if not more happy, as in the other dorms” and Harry R. Lewis ’68, the oft-critical former dean of the College, put it this way last year: “I suppose different people may see different symbols in that—students losing their places to administrative bureaucrats, the College being swallowed up by the University, or maybe the FAS selling...