Word: proctore
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...stated meeting of the board of overseers of Harvard College was held yesterday forenoon at the office of the treasurer, President E. Rockwood Hoar occupying the chair. It was voted to concur with the president and fellows in the appointment of Frank Gaylord Cook, A. B., as proctor, and of Josiah Royce, Ph. D., as assistant professor of philosophy for five years, from Sept. 1, 1885. Rev. A. P. Peabody, D. D., presented the report of the committee to which was referred the petition of the students for changes of the rules regarding attendance at college prayers, with the following...
Amherst must, however, be congratulated on having a faculty so broad minded as to recognize the fact that students are not boys, to be trusted only within range of the proctor's eye, but men, capable of governing themselves, and of exercising surveillance over the few unruly school boys, who, by some accident, succeed in entering college...
...adjourned meeting of the board of overseers, President E. Rockwood Hoar in the chair, it was voted to concur with the president and fellows in appointing George Anthony Hill, A. M., instructor in engineering, and George William Sawin proctor. The election of William James, M. D., as professor of philosophy was presented and laid over under the rules. The petition of the students regarding attendance at college prayers, indorsed by the faculty, was referred to Messrs. Peabody, Brooks and Lowell. The committee on the quinquennial catalogue was requested to consider the subject of the official language of the university...
...first, of a very different significance from that which now attaches to it. Its present meaning is very nearly equivalent to that of our own term, "dropped," a term which. in all probability, will never require any very elaborate explanation. Speaking of the functions of an Oxford proctor, the 'Varsity says...
...receives the names and fees of candidates for the public examinations, and plays a conspicuous and highly amusing part in the ceremony of conferring degrees. After each batch of new-made graduates have had a Latin incantation mumbled over them by the Vive-Chancellor, two Proctors-in the presence not only of University officials and students but also of any outsider how chooses to look on sheepishly stride up the long room and back again without saying or doing anything. At first there is an attempt at solemnity in their gait, but after the senseless exercise has been repeated...