Word: proctoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lines, then (after a 90-degree turn) with a red line. Covers are added along the way; the whole works is stapled, folded, and pressed; and the long pieces are cut into four conventional-sized booklets. They are packaged, shipped directly to the examination hall, and unpacked by various proctor-types...
...proctor who escaped arrest harked back to the Humpty-Dumpty riot of 1956 and the Fight Mental Health protests of 1958: "They were different. This crew will go off on a rampage." A more internationally-minded pedestrian observed, "Algiers was never like this...
Based on a proposal submitted last Spring by Benjamin W. Labaree, Senior Tutor of Winthrop House, the plan calls for the replacement of the freshman proctor with the "resident adviser." Beginning next term, the 60 resident advisers will absorb the proctors' functions and advise 600 freshman. At present only 40 proctors are also advisers...
...College anomaly between comfort and hardship affects matters of discipline too. At first sight, University rules and regulations seem harsh indeed. College gates clang shut at midnight and the walls bristle with wicked spikes. By day, a Proctor prowls around the University hunting for transgressors. Since tradition forbids the Proctor to undertake personally the sordid business of making arrests, he is followed by several 'Bulldogs,' gentlemen who share three characteristics: they wear bowler hats, they look like gorillas (big chests, long arms) and they run like the wind. If the traffic is heavy--and in Oxford it usually...
Escaping detection on each occasion, the "Mad Buttoner" left further traces of mania in the form of notes in the proctor's room and on the office desk in the Freshman Union. The exam period frustration of the unknown malefactor apparently took the form of cryptic missives and verses on a theme of buttons. "Button, button, who's got the button" was a favorite...