Word: proctors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dormitory Proctor...
...quiet schoolteacher, whose job depends on her respectability. Mary's lover Martin, an announcer of the British Broadcasting Corp., has also to be above suspicion. Just once, however, Martin and Mary are tempted beyond their strength. A jealous woman writes an anonymous letter to the King's Proctor. Detectives investigate and Mary's decree is rescinded. Since both have been convicted of adultery neither she nor John can ever be divorced. She would live in sin with her ex-announcer, but poor respectable John would never get his schoolteacher. The philosophic lawyer summed...
...ordinary university proctor walked into some University of Chicago examination rooms one day last week his first impulse would have been to cry "Un-fair!", to throw every student out for flagrant cheating. Row on row sat students with question sheets before them. But instead of scratching their heads and staring desperately out windows nearly every one was busily thumbing through textbooks and lecture notes...
...lack of knowledge of their job that they do not even get to bat. Even older men who are in constant communication with the undergraduate department in their own fields, have grown out of touch with undergraduate feelings and problems in the broader sense. That ideal adviser, the Yard proctor, exists in the minority...
...position of Freshman proctor is much sought after, largely because of a prevailing but fallacious notion that it affords a soft berth with free bed and board and no arduous routine duties attached. However, those who are in a position to recall incidents of their supposedly halcyon freshman days in the Yard, will recall that the duties of the office, like Bacon's intellect, take all the world of human affairs as their province. The number of embarrassing incidents such as the recent affaire Wigglesworth, in which three Freshmen were caught in the toils of the law for throwing milkbottles...