Word: proctors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which are being held for the benefit of conscientious students and the Widow's (alias Manter Hall School). I I never used to pay much attention to these things when I lived here regularly, but yesterday I visited a few and found them quite amusing, especially when the head proctor's toe missed me as I was going out of the door...
...tell all of Gore Hall at dinner this noon how much he wrote on the English exam: It won't do him any good, of course, since every one will either fail to hear him or think that he cheated and wrote on every other line. Meanwhile six proctors are rushing to his aid, the head proctor in his haste forgetting the table in front of him and taking a headlong live on to the floor, thereby hurting himself not a little. Overcome, I jump out of the west rose window and hastily repair to Wadsworth House for a little...
There has always been in the ideal university education a certain demarcation between intelligence and integrity. A proctor is a proctor and a teacher is a teacher, and confusion of their respective spheres would be nothing short of disastrous. Any suggestion that concerns the question of the tutor's intellectual leadership of the student must be welcomed. That the problem of securing and of keeping men competent to undertake the mental salvation of undergraduates has not as yet been completely solved need hardly be stated. But the problem of finding men who can also undertake moral and spiritual salvation...
...Certainly it is annoying to have proctors in squeaking boots walking up and down an examination-room. It is annoying, also, to have two proctors stand behind you and converse in tones so, exquisitely modulated that you catch just half their conversation. But, great as these annoyances are, there is one other in comparison with which they sink into insignificance. It has frequently happened that as soon as a number of men had finished their papers, the books were seized by some proctor, who after reading until he came to a passage that seemed to him ridiculous, would call...
...positions of assistant treasurer and assistant secretary went to Henry Harrison Proctor '29 of Boston and James De Normandie '29 also of Boston, respectively...