Word: cheating
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...days ago the CRIMSON commented on the strange distinction which undergraduates draw between cheating in outside written work and cheating in examinations; and gave, as one reason for this, their failure to realize that they were tacitly pledged to do such written work honorably. Another equally strong reason is their failure to realize the entire similarity of the two kinds of cheating. Many men, who would consider it beneath their dignity and their honor to ask help from a neighbor in the classroom, are not above copying a report or a mathematics paper. Both these actions are equally forms...
...long as there are proctors in the examination-room there will always be a certain number of morally or mentally incapable men who will maintain that they have a perfect right to cheat if the proctor does not see them. The proctor is there to keep them from cheating, but if he is not quick enough to stop them they have used a legitimate right, they say. If the honor system were instituted at Harvard it would immediately change the present individual feeling against dishonesty, to an irresistible public spirit against it, as it has at Princeton and Williams...
...obtained at some colleges by means of the Honor System, to which we strongly believe the Student Council should give full consideration. As already implied, the problem is to regulate undergraduate opinion so that the present all too frequent instances of cheating on the part of a small group of men, instead of affording amusement to the many, will be universally frowned upon. Class-room deception is amusing to some men today, because they do not feel as keenly as they should, the weight of moral responsibility. They do not consider a man who "cribs" under the present system essentially...