Word: proctors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...undoing the cycle of academic pressure and self-inflicted physical abuse at Harvard. We always hear about the problems with advising at Harvard, either through empty whines or mind-numbing tirades about bureaucracy. Here's a simple suggestion: every student should get a call from a tutor or a proctor at least twice a semester. Without that kind of personal contact, stressed students will continue to fall through the cracks. And maybe an older, wiser friend can furnish some perspective...
...Hudson 5-9 4-6 14; Proctor...
...first, we shun such fawning. We tell our family and friends that we go to school in Boston and avoid dropping the H-bomb that might make lesser folk uncomfortable. In polite conversation, we grow adept at unconsciously substituting "major" for "concentration," "resident advisor" for "proctor" and "TA" for "TF." We pretend we go to a school like all other schools, only with a slightly higher average GPA and a slightly worse football team...
...seemed that they were subsidizing one school against another, which at Harvard is a dangerous situation to be in," Proctor says...
...Whenever you do things like this, you find some bathwater and some babies," Proctor says. "But this situation is still too emotional to find out how much of each they may have thrown out.... They may have just eliminated the bathroom...