Word: proctoring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reverend Peter J. Gomes, minister in the Memorial Church and Plummer Profesor of Christian Morals, conducted the service. Several of Ecker's friends, David Feinberg '81, Joanne Burger '81, Susanne Coates '81, and his proctor, Jeff Sonnenfeld '76, spoke of their memories of Ecker...
Mark Goldberg, a freshman proctor, agreed, saying "This year's freshmen don't have a very good picture of what the houses are like, but neither did those of the past...
...Bill Edwards is known throughout the Harvard community. He proctors hourlies, make-ups and final exams for the College, the grad schools, the extension office and the summer school. He proctors freshman week exams that determine placement in courses, and in his spare time has even been spotted proctoring Law School Admissions Tests (LSAT). While Edwards cautions that "I try to work as little as possible," he nonetheless describes his occupation as that of "a freelance proctor...
...unconventional relationship with the University and with such choice exposure to students, Edwards has become part of the folklore of Harvard. The various names he goes by are part of the student contribution to his legend. The titles "Mr. Test" and "Mr. Exam" and the slightly more clever "Doctor Proctor" are those more frequently used by students. But he has gone by more obscure names in the past...
...continue to love the sense of continuity and curiosity he creates; they will continue to resent the authority he stands for when he finally barks out, "The exam is over." Bill Edwards has been at Harvard for the better part of a decade and is probably the most talented proctor the University has. In a college that highly values both tradition and excellence, it seems that Mr. Test will have a home for many years to come...