Word: proctore
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...mount the stairs to your room don't be surprised if some stranger says hello to you by name. He's probably your proctor or advisor who's memorized the names and faces of all his wards. He's also probably responsible for your living in that particular dorm with those particular roommates...
...Miles College; Elliot L. Richardson '41 of McLean, Va., former U.S. attorney general and secretary of Defense; Lloyd H. Smith, Jr. of San Francisco, a 1948 graduate of the Medical School and chairman of the department of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco; and Mary E. Proctor '63 of Washington, a management consultant at American Management Systems...
...conservative portfolio, for example, contained stock in American Telephone & Telegraph, DuPont, Exxon, General Electric, Manufacturers Hanover Corp., and Proctor and Gamble...
DAVID EVANS and his wife Mercedes live in a proctor's apartment in Grays Hall. On the nights that he has a chance to relax, he sometimes begins unwinding with an after-dinner pool game at the Union. Once back at his apartment he might mull over some material that he has collected on Surinam during a summer excursion with his close friend Alan Counter, assistant professor of Biology. Evans and Counter will soon be making an appearance on national television to discuss their trip. Maybe it is because he is a southerner, maybe it is because Evans has lived...
...trials seemed a liberal's nightmare: a classic instance of arbitrary persecution by meddlers and busybodies, like the busybodies who accused obviously innocent reformers of trying to subvert the American republic. Arthur Miller's The Crucible gave this perspective its most eloquent convincing and popular expression, dramatically pitting John Proctor, the skeptical but self-respecting hero who would not save his life by making a false confession, against people like the Reverend Samuel Parris, who "believed he was being persecuted wherever he went," cutting a "villainous" and bloodstained path into the history books...