Word: proctored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the method first instigated, the proctor was stripped of all authority and left to act as a mechanical aid in conducting the exam. The system contrasted sharply with that still in effect at Harvard, where proctors prowl the aisles and peer over shoulders to prevent cheating. Another provision allowed the 'Cliffie to leave the examination room without a weary but determined proctor dogging her footsteps. Though girls were on their honor not to give or receive aid during the course of an exam, they were free to take both question sheet and blue book anywhere they pleased...
...long study of the system Striving, as one member of the group said, "to reconcile ideals and utility," the committee held bi-weekly discussions and sponsored a Radcliffe News poll of student opinion. Issued in June, 1954, the group's report called for a return of authority to the proctor, and emphasized the proctor's duty to report infractions of a set of revised rules. Student objections to reporting others' rule violations were largely overlooked by the committee, which urged that girls continue to be responsible for each other. This provision, however, remained so universally disliked and disregarded that last...
According to Radcliffe's present examination rules, nearly identical with those suggested in 1954, students are forbidden to remove question sheets or blue books from the exam room and are requested not to talk in the room or halls. They are still free to leave the room without a proctor's guardianship. However, these rules lost much of their importance last fall, when the Radcliffe Administration voted to hold joint exams with Harvard in courses enrolling less than 20 'Cliffies. As a result, Radcliffe administered only 52 separate examinations at mid-year, while Harvard and its regulations controlled finals...
...letter to the Council, von Stade cited the "relative youth of the students involved" and the difficulty of controlling the numerous exits of Yard dormitories in explaining the Board's decision. To the Council's suggestion that each proctor patrol several proctoral units one weekend a month, he replied that this is not a proper function of proctors...
Nancy Prober '59 Radcliffe Student Council president, reached last night and asked to comment, didn't. She explained that she was "embarrassed." Blaise G. A. Pasztory 1L, a proctor in most New Lecture Hall examinations, was more hopeful: "I am neither embarrassed nor inconvenienced by our little walks." He added that he believed that "this feeling is reciprocated by the girls...