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...recent action of the Princeton faculty in abolishing supervision of examinations and, instead, requesting students to sign a declaration at the end of their paper to the effect that they have neither given nor received assistance, has given rise to considerable discussion by the press of various colleges. While this regulation has a certain merit of appealing to the honesty of every man and of tending to raise the standard of honor, it may be doubted whether this mere signing of a pledge will make any material difference in the amount of cheating. A man is no more...
...editors of the daily and weekly papers and correspondents at Columbia of outside papers have formed a Press Club...
Certain changes in the method of scoring in football are being discussed. It is proposed to abolish the place kick altogether. The Philadelphia Press suggests the following: safety, 1 point; goal from field, 3 points; touch-down, 5 points, and goal from touch-down (if not abolished), half a point...
...question of an international college boat race at the World's Fair has caused considerable comment from the press of the country, which with hardly an exception favors the admission of Cornell some way or other into the contest. It is stated that the winner of the Oxford Cambridge race would be unwilling to row the winner of the Harvard-Yale race, for by so doing the championship of the world would still remain unsettled, if Cornell chose to dispute the claim and insist upon rowing the English crew herself...
...regret that an accident to the press should have delayed the issue of yesterday's paper...