Word: proctoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time limit for entertaining girls in the rooms has been extended from 10 p.m. until 12 midnight with a 1 a.m. curfew on Saturdays and holiday eves. New rules allow men merely to sign on dormitory lists when they have women guests; is the past written permission from a proctor was ceded...
...furniture for the new graduate dormitories is no more functional than the old, according to Winton U. Solberg, proctor of Conant Hall, who has been testing the chairs and desks in his own suite...
...slow were overtaken by hard-breathing "bullers" (bowler-hatted, black-coated Oxford cops) who tipped their hats and inquired "Are you a member of the university, sir?" After the inevitable admission, the guilty were led to a solemn and unhurried figure standing nearby in cap & gown-a university proctor-who demanded "Name and college...
Without fear of proctor and bullers, Oxford's students could drop in at any tavern they pleased, but there was no mad rush. "It's a subtle scheme," complained one undergraduate, "to undermine our illicit pleasures...
Current Harvard grad school regulations allow entertaining until 10 p.m. with the written permission of the proctor...