THE NEW PROCTORS

In publishing the list of new proctors who are to occupy the Yard and other dormitories next fall, the University shows evidence that it has again attempted to secure an excellent staff to fill these much coveted positions. The selection of the sixteen new proctors is characterized by a nice discrimination between the scholar and the athlete, nor has the prominent man benefited to the exclusion of the less well-known individual. Likewise the inclusion of several non-Harvard graduates shows that President Conant's policy of geographical representation is being followed in the proctorial as well as undergraduate sphere.

The position of Freshman proctor is much sought after, largely because of a prevailing but fallacious notion that it affords a soft berth with free bed and board and no arduous routine duties attached. However, those who are in a position to recall incidents of their supposedly halcyon freshman days in the Yard, will recall that the duties of the office, like Bacon's intellect, take all the world of human affairs as their province. The number of embarrassing incidents such as the recent affaire Wigglesworth, in which three Freshmen were caught in the toils of the law for throwing milkbottles out the window, that have been averted by timely and sympathetic proctorial intervention looms large in Freshman annals. Qualities of judgment, tact, and initiative are all prime requisites for the position, and the new list of new men gives promise that the latter will perform their functions creditably.