Word: proctoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make pomegranate jam, build a five-level child's bed, hide the garden gas meter with evergreen shrubs and watch the Karok Indians fish at California's Ishi Pishi Falls. "Everything we publish has to be something on which a reader can take action," says Sunset Editor Proctor Mellquist. "This gives us a very limited role in the field of urban planning. If our magazine has a social conscience, we don't play a very active role...
...evidently aided a small fire which had been started in the mattress, probably by a stray cigarette. Miss Schumann and her roommate, Margaret Pfeffer, alerted their proctor who then called the Cambridge fire department. The firemen quickly extinguished the blaze...
...some way or another, to a little pamphlet entitled "Regulations for Students in Harvard College," in which appears the notation: "A student who is guilty of an offense against law and order at the time of a public disturbance or unauthorized demonstration or who disregards the instructions of a proctor or other University officer at such time may have his connection with the University served. The mere presence of a student at a disturbance or unauthorized demonstration makes him liable to disciplinary action...
...this is not the view of Harvard College which I have gained from four undergraduate years and four more years spent as section-man, freshman proctor, and freshman adviser. My impression of Harvard College is that of a place ruled by convention and prejudice, not reason. Two aspects of the educational process are noteworthy: first, the content of the courses taught by the Philosophy Department, with which I was associated. Although philosophy is potentially one of the most important subjects in a liberal education, the philosophy courses at Harvard fall far short of promoting humanistic values to any important degree...
...would be equally foolish to say that the decision of the Lowell Committee was in every way a logical one. Its evaluation of the evidence of Proctor, and of the charges against Ripley, the foreman, and in several other cases show a constantly repeating pattern: an intuitive decision that the prosecution was correct and the defense in error...