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...extinction of disinterested study is a necessary consequence of the encouragement to cram. When the best and most receptive years of a man's life have been passed in having the doctrine ground into him, that the end of all study is to cheat the examiner, and that knowledge is valuable only so far as it can be made to pay in an examination, it is hard to see how he can unlearn the teaching he has received, and alter the character that has been formed in him. The grown man is what he has been taught...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Examination System II. | 6/10/1885 | See Source »

...reached, however, when it boldly states that "four minutes before the time had expired, Mr. Peace declared the game finished, " when "it seemed as if Yale must make a touchdown, so near was the ball to the goal line." This plain statement to the effect that Mr. Peace cheated, would, from any other source than a Yale paper, be deemed a gross and inexcusable insult. It would hardly seem possible that any paper published by college men could make such an assertion. All that can be said is Yale ! It is the natural out-come of the cheat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/6/1883 | See Source »

...Yale win, it seems that insult has been added to injury. Not content, however, to let matters rest here, the Yale News felt itself called upon to uphold the tone of its college by directly insulting the captain of our team, covertly charging him with connivance with Princeton to cheat Yale. What grounds the News had for making so serious a charge, we have no means of knowing. Probably, however, they claim the right to gratuitously insult, as their players claim the right to play off-side and foul. We are forced to admit that the action of the eleven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/2/1882 | See Source »

Prohibition to cheat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COPYRIGHT CONGRESS. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

...arts which belong to the cheat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SONG OF THE CRIBBER. | 4/5/1881 | See Source »

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