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...seems you don't approve of the way things are run down here at Princeton, and you applaud and endorse your own standards over and above ours. The Princeton boys don't cheat, you say, because there is the "honor system." That's true, they don't, and because of the honor system, too. The only reason the "honor system" was dropped here during the war was because some prospective Harvard men were sent here in the V-12 units. I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but we do have morals and ethics here, and the "honor...
...tried to short-change the Government and had got caught at it. Most of the 111,000 on the honesty rolls had merely broken out in uneasy sweat and had kicked in voluntarily to avoid trouble. The sorry fact: never before had so many taxpayers tried to cheat in such...
...hubbub of balloting, all discipline was lost. Cried Club President Mrs. LaFell Dickinson: "Ladies, will you please shut up!" There was even a dark suspicion that some of the alternates were voting illegally. Admonished the chairman: "I know that none of our women would cheat but some might be excited and forget...
...birches, the wild cherry trees and the poplars unfolded their gummy and fragrant leaves, the bursting buds of the lindens expanded, the jackdaws, the sparrows and the pigeons were busy and joyous over their nests. . . . Plants, birds, insects and children rejoiced. But man, mature man, ceased not to cheat and to harass himself and his fellowmen.-Leo Tolstoy in "Resurrection...
...nearly so elaborately produced as some prewar French films (Story of a Cheat, Carnival in Flanders), It Happened at the Inn also lacks much of the expert, offhand humor of its nearest kin, The Baker's Wife. The new French humor has a hint of violence; there is violence, too, in the insistence on being funny. In the old French movies, you could take the jokes or leave them alone. In It Happened at the Inn, the humorous situations are of a sort you must either take or reject. U.S. audiences are likely to reject quite...