Word: cheat
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Dean Briggs shows just why the recent vote of the Faculty in regard to posting names for dishonesty in written work was passed, and then concludes his remarks on this subject as follows: "My hope is that self-respect or fear will make the offence almost impossible; for whoever cheats will know that he cheats, and will cheat with his eyes open to the result of detection: and my ultimate hope is a higher right for Harvard College to maintain that she stands for truth...
...heavy punishment on any man found guilty of handing in written work not his own, emphasizes a very serious flaw in our college morals. It is of course inevitable that there should be a few men in an institution as large as Harvard who will be dishonorable enough to cheat or hand in work not their own. But these offences against truthfulness and honor are not confined to a few, and the undergraduate sentiment concerning them is not sufficiently condemnatory. Why this vital defect in the college morals should exist is hard to decide; but we believe...
Seniors are earnestly requested not to sell any of their extra tickets, even to other seniors. Otherwise some men would get more than their share of the reduced senior rates and thus cheat the class. Any extra tickets purchased in packages may be returned and the cost price will be refunded from 11 to 12 a. m. June...
...disposition to cheat grows naturally out of a feeling of hostility toward the professors; with the decay of that feeling, students become less and less inclined to excuse violations of honor as acts of self-defence which are expected by both parties to the conflict. The individual's perception of honor is gradually given free play. With many this at once and decisively condemns cheating; but there remains a class which has not yet reached such an advanced moral condition. These two classes are inevitably blended, and no body of students can be divided into the honorable and the dishonorable...
...instructor in the examination room serves also as a protection to the honorable man who does not wish to be disturbed by others less earnest than himself; it prevents in large measure such combinations of circumstances which might tempt those of no very strong powers of resistance, to cheat; and, finally, it is a matter of great convenience, all question of honor out of the consideration, to those who take examinations. The system of proctors, as now in force at Harvard, does not imply a low state of honor in the college; rather, it accompanies an unusually high state...