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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cheating by making it unconventional, a sort of infraction of good fellowship, precisely misses the point, which is that cheating is wrong because it is wrong and not because it is either conventional or unconventional. A good illustration of the failure to see this point was afforded in a certain college that had lately adopted the honor system, when a prominent undergraduate innocently asked the President when the new system was to "take effect." He wished to know how soon he should begin to observe the niceties of behavior required by the new regime...
...namely, that being a radical change, and one weighing heavily on the individual, it would not meet the universal approval absolutely necessary for its success. Professor Perry's words change the honor system from a remote possibility to an immediate issue. The Student Council could make few moves more certain of laying for itself a firm foundation of undergraduate esteem than in recommending the adoption of the honor system at Harvard...
...fears it very much unless he is an athlete, a member of the Musical Clubs, or has some such outside interest. To the majority of undergraduates, probation means practically nothing but the necessity of keeping College engagements regularly. Some men get placed upon probation with a surprising regularity at certain times every year. Many come to expect it as a matter of course-rather a bore, indeed, because it places them under the necessity of ceasing cutting, but otherwise hardly worthy of passing notice. That such an attitude should be allowed to exist is unfortunate. Probation should be made...
...should be remembered that the problem of combination is one that is born of the last century, along with new inventions, and the use of steam and electricity. The fact that modern industry requires so much more capital than formerly eliminates in itself a certain amount of competition. Although there are perfectly justifiable advantages which come from the combination of certain industries before the monopoly stage is reached, the advantages enjoyed by the monopoly in controlling prices and in crowding out small competitors are evils which, although not strictly in violation of present laws, are nevertheless evils which future laws...
...make material difference, and candidates for teams and papers, as well as captains and managers, all have reasons for not ranking as high as men who have confined themselves to study. It is argued that the former group would be placed before the public in a false light; that certain low grades, for which there would be perfectly valid excuses, could not be explained to the many friends who would see the marks. These statements are all perfectly true. There would undoubtedly be at first a great deal of unjust criticism on the part of outsiders who knew nothing...