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To the Editors of the Crimson:

There has been a good deal of righteous indignation about the conduct of proctors during the present examination period During the recent examination in Fine Arts certain of the proctors were observed to be immensely amused at some of the books handed in before the close of the hour. In other courses also, books have been opened and passed from proctor to proctor and treated much as copies of the Lampoon or Life might have been. Probably nothing could have been farther from the minds of the writers than the production of jokes and this unfair treatment of their work has been justly condemned. It would seem that men old enough to be graduates of College would be old enough to mind their own business. Certainly it arouses no friendly feeling in a man to see a blue book which has been prepared for fair examination, ridiuled by a proctor who sees something funny in every honest opinion, and in every sign of individual thought. There has been a suggestion of "eminent domain" about the conduct of the proctors this year which has made them decidedly obnoxious. The students cannot expect to be left to themselves at the examinations; they may, however, reasonably expect the proctors to act as gentlemen.

H '94.