Word: proctors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first, of a very different significance from that which now attaches to it. Its present meaning is very nearly equivalent to that of our own term, "dropped," a term which. in all probability, will never require any very elaborate explanation. Speaking of the functions of an Oxford proctor, the 'Varsity says...
...receives the names and fees of candidates for the public examinations, and plays a conspicuous and highly amusing part in the ceremony of conferring degrees. After each batch of new-made graduates have had a Latin incantation mumbled over them by the Vive-Chancellor, two Proctors-in the presence not only of University officials and students but also of any outsider how chooses to look on sheepishly stride up the long room and back again without saying or doing anything. At first there is an attempt at solemnity in their gait, but after the senseless exercise has been repeated...
...meeting of the board of overseers of Harvard College was held on Wednesday. The board voted to concur with the president and fellows in their votes appointing Edward Cummings, A. B., proctor; re-appointing Henry W. Torrey, Charles E. Norton, Wolcott Gibbs, Francis J. Child George L. Goodale, and Crawford H. Toy to be members of the council of the library for three years from January 1, 1885, etc. The vote of the president and fellows to repeal the second and third paragraphs of the statutes of the University, numbered 14, was referred to Messrs. Peabody, Brooks, and Lowell. This...
...Students Lecture Association of Michigan University is to enjoy lectures and readings by the following eminent gentlemen : Prof. Richard A. Proctor, George W. Cable, Mark Twam, Carl Shurz, thomas Nast, and Henry Ward Beecher...
...following men have been elected as members of the Everett Athenaeum : G. Cunningham, H. W. Stevens. A. S. Knight, H. G. Hale, G. P. Knapp, J. P. Blake, W. H. Black, H. Schofield, C. S. Proctor, J. L. Ames, A. H. Osgood, W. B. Howe, L. Luce...