Cribbing At Harvard

Tli of Harvard unlverslty ■ ! irs iutPiition to separate the col leg ■'aulents handing in writfen worl; nc:r their own, nmi to post on college bulletin '■ ::.: ■■!. saya Harper's Weeícly. The ofCamiliarly :'ü)bing." "■'■ Harvard torniíned and ;nnounced !..i: i; is diahonorable ;mil rai-iis ptlb ■ The conclusión thua ewhat revolutlonary and aken reluctance aml af:rr solemn llumítlii and Culi iliswission. In oíd Harvard, as in most r colleges where what s known aa the "honor syetem'1 in examtnations does noi pif-vall. rribbing !io; rogaided as áiskonorable, thougli i t s es])PdIency has always been froely questloned, oven ))} ihe pations oí tfie practice. It used to be t'he cusloni, wboii wrltten examinatione were held, to garrigoD the examlnatlon rooms wiih proctors, who patrolled the es and marte it their business to restraic aa far as posBible the propensit.v of tli f examined to eheat. The resul- was ihüt it was regarded as a e to Iwat the examiners, and students oí honorable charaetcr often iised what furtive nids they migbt to out ttieir halting scholarship. Ontv hen ios examínation? were in some degree competltire, as whero students were trying for high rank or for scholti-ehips, v, aseribbing feit. to invelve dis1 But eonditions are declared to Have changed ut Harvard. The relaliona between instmetors and students re more familiar than tüey used to be And the majority of the studente are Believed to take thelr work more seriously than they onoe diri and to look pon ilieir instruetors moro as íountlns of information and leas as h'.ndrance to eaae. Tlie faculty feels that there are certain chüdish Uiings that ouglu to be ]ut away from Harvard forerer, and crlbbing k one oí them. Heno this severe penalty for an offpnso wUich, h seems, is still very prevalent amonp the more frivoJou nndergraduatee.