Word: proctoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dick Walsh, veteran, and Slim Curtiss, 1939 starter, are in the ranks of the pitchers turning out regularly. Also among these are Royall Victor '37, who has been up and down with the Varsity and Junior Varsity for two years, Proctor H. Avon '37, Junior Varsity mainstay last year, and John R. Mahoney '37, also of the 1936 Seconds...
...basis of these old and eminently reasonable arguments, the President made his proposals: Let the Chief Justice have power to assign temporarily lower court justices from one court to another when dockets grow crowded. Let the Supreme Court have a new officer, a $10,000-a-year "proctor" to watch for congestion in the lower courts and recommend transfers of judges and other steps to relieve it. Let any decision on the constitutionality of a law be appealed directly to the Supreme Court, there to take precedence over other cases so that the constitutionality of laws be not long...
...meet these criteria a new proctor-adviser system should be organized, with each proctor-adviser rewarded with a hundred dollars for his adviser duties, with room and board for his proctorship. Today proctors are officially little more than glorified yard cops; a surprising number, however, are already performing the services of the proposed office without outside suggestion or remuneration. In addition, nearly fifty percent of the present proctors are also advisers. The proctor-adviser should be drawn from the same groups from which proctors are presently selected, for there are both graduate students and instructors who are eminently fitted...
Availability is a cardinal point in the new program. The proctor-adviser should live in the entry with his advisees, in large entries there might be two such men, and for commuters the advisers should live in or near the center of Freshman activities, the Yard. Furthermore, the number of proctor-advisers should be increased to fifty, so that there would not be more than twenty advisees assigned to one man. As for those who are willing to perform services of love-among them some excellent professors-they could be used most effectively in those places not covered...
Salary of the first proctor is $6,000 per year, with $4,000 for expenses and an assistant's salary. Funds come from the lawyers of the district who conceived the post, selected Lawyer McCormick for it. Born in Medina, N. Y., Karl McCormick attended the University of Buffalo's School of Law (1909). He and his wife are crack bridge players, live on Buffalo's Chatham Avenue two blocks from where President William Mclvinley was shot...