Word: papers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bade them goodbye, wished them success. All were still in uniform as they passed through Manhattan on their way home, but newsgatherers had no trouble in singling out the one they were looking for; a tall, broad-shouldered boy of 20 whose face was darker than the dark brown-paper bundle under his arm. He was Alonzo Souleigh Parham, the fourteenth Negro to enter West Point, the eleventh to leave before graduation...
...arise, the Tribune might support him. Should he not, and should Mrs. McCormick be nominated, it might support her, although, as she has most carefully pointed out, no Tribune stock belongs to her. Even so, Chicagoans were surprised at the coolness of Brother-in-law Robert's potent paper toward Sister-in-law Ruth's candidacy...
...cheat as much as he please provided he is not caught; and if he is caught he must be punished not for an ethical offense, but for violating a class room regulation, and such a punishment would not be explusion this time, but confiscation of his paper, or perhaps merely the deletion of the copied passages. On the other hand if the student himself must prevent the cheating, he knows what to do and what not to do. He knows what the responsibility of the honor system is and is either willing to abide by it or to accept...
Midyears are well under way and students are passing or failing as the case may be. But it is to be regretted that there is no sliding scale on which might be judged the professors who assign these semi-annual quizzes. For an examination paper examines the man who gives it as well as him who takes it, and from this point of view many of our faculty would flunk...
Yesterday morning, for example, an examination paper in English 1, a course in Chaucer, required a comment on one of two passages. The first was a quotation in rather difficult German and the second one in fairly simple French. Granted that the language requirements demand a reading knowledge of either one or the other, it seems a little unfair to expect that a student who had taken or was planning to take French 2 or German 1a would thereby be enabled to surmount a sight translation...