Word: cheat
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...suppose that "H. H. D." had his wish and that all students, simply as such, were treated as above suspicion and examined without proctors. Suppose then that some of them, being tempted by Satan, were to cheat, and to be seen cheating. What I should like "H. H. D." to answer is this: What likelihood would there be, in the present state of college opinion, of such students being sent to Coventry, dropped from the various associations with which they might be connected, and made to feel generally they had disgraced themselves in the public eye? It is all very...
...know that confidence is placed in their honor. Professor James has tried the plan. At the hour examinations given to his classes this year and last, no proctor was placed in the room. It was then that the real force of public opinion was felt. No man dared to cheat. Each man felt that the shame would be tenfold greater than if he should be caught cheating under the eye of a proctor. The element of daring, of dull satisfaction at the cunning evasion of the sharp glance of a policeman was entirely taken away. There was instead a feeling...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Among the many complaints which are annually made in regard to the mid-year examinations, there is one which is certainly justifiable. If we must have a police force of proctors to spy upon us during examinations to see that we don't cheat, converse, or otherwise misbehave ourselves, why cannot we have detectives endowed with a little delicacy of feeling? At an examination yesterday, the man in front of me finished his paper about three-quarters of an hour before the time was up. Immediately a proctor strolled along, his boots creaking like the doors...
...author to defend it. Men said that it would be hard to get many groups of a dozen or more men to go bail for each other's honors in this way; that certain groups of men might form such clubs for the express purpose of cheating; that a club honestly formed might not remain pure, etc. In brief, the project met no favor. Now, to me this little incident was a revelation of the low ebb to which the college tone had sunk as regards effective moral opinion. I thought I could perceive that what made this scheme unpromising...
...departure of the hated proctor, a broad grin would spread over the countenance of the joker, and in a little while the scene would be repeated with variations. But when it was rumored that his room was to be searched by the faculty, the joker determined to cheat them of their prey. So he invited some of his classmates to the room, and the pig being cooked, all present partook of a goodly feast. They enjoyed their midnight meal so much that they determined then and there to form a club and have such enterainments periodically. In order to render...