Word: proctore
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...Each girl is allowed three late nights, with the previous permission of her proctor (who issues her a late pass), during the 8-week summer session...
Miss Sarozky has left little trace behind her at the Summer School. She was enrolled in Spanish SAab, was given privelege card number 2390, assigned to Straus A 42. Her proctor, Miss Asha Seth, said yesterday that she never met her and that her name vanished from the official student listing after July...
Outside of academic experience, the student proctor would have a general familiarity with the ins and outs of life in Cambridge, gained through three years of osmosis. One's values change in the course of an undergraduate career, and the things that seem crucial freshman year are usually seen in a different light by the time one is a junior or senior. Of course, a student proctor's purpose wouldn't be to take advisees on his knee and tell them what it's important to worry about while at Harvard--few seniors are infinite in their wisdom anyway...
...students. But many freshmen who would like to meet them don't, as the HUC's poll indicated. An alternative proposed by the Council is to have groups of juniors and seniors assigned to dorm entries. This plan would avoid the disciplinary problems that might arise with an undergraduate proctor system, and, if the "dorm affiliates" were adopt, it would have all the same advantages...
...plans is to provide for freshmen informal contacts with upperclassmen in order to gain the sorts of academic and personal advice they cannot get under the present counseling method. By promoting this kind of contact and creating a new rapport the HUC's proposed plan could supplement the current proctor system...