Word: proctore
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Under the method first instigated, the proctor was stripped of all authority and left to act as a mechanical aid in conducting the exam. The system contrasted sharply with that still in effect at Harvard, where proctors prowl the aisles and peer over shoulders to prevent cheating. Another provision allowed the 'Cliffie to leave the examination room without a weary but determined proctor dogging her footsteps. Though girls were on their honor not to give or receive aid during the course of an exam, they were free to take both question sheet and blue book anywhere they pleased...
...letter to the Council, von Stade cited the "relative youth of the students involved" and the difficulty of controlling the numerous exits of Yard dormitories in explaining the Board's decision. To the Council's suggestion that each proctor patrol several proctoral units one weekend a month, he replied that this is not a proper function of proctors...
...insult, the University requires each voyaging scholar to be acompanied by a (male) proctor, and every time Nature calls one of the weaker sex, she emerges from the giant portals of New Lecture Hall with an escort...
Nancy Prober '59 Radcliffe Student Council president, reached last night and asked to comment, didn't. She explained that she was "embarrassed." Blaise G. A. Pasztory 1L, a proctor in most New Lecture Hall examinations, was more hopeful: "I am neither embarrassed nor inconvenienced by our little walks." He added that he believed that "this feeling is reciprocated by the girls...
Further stipulations state that the intention to entertain feminine company after the present deadline of 8 p.m. must be communicated to the appropriate proctor and University authorities at least 48 hours in advance, and that "there be normal lighting in all rooms at all times" during the evening...