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...such, less satisfying. Youngsters who were in diapers when DeMille was at the peak of his power may sit spellbound before Cleopatra but oldsters who remember his great works with mass in motion will probably feel that, by his own standards, he has foisted off on them a "cheater"?the industry's word for a picture intended to look much more costly than...
...order to retain his status, must be "honorable"- the requisite degree of honor being defined as ''honorable enough to pay his debts if he is able to do so after proper administration of his land." Peasants who flagrantly cheat their creditors will suffer a peculiar penalty: the cheater's estate will pass while he is yet living to his heir. If the heir turns out to be a cheat, his heir gets the estate, and so on until an "honorable peasant" is found to hold the homestead...
...only function of a proctor to restrain the confirmed cheater. The presence of an 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...
...that the cure lies rather in a slow but steady raising of the standard of college honor. Not many years ago there was little opposition to practical jokes in the class room or to the most open cheating in examinations. The jokes have gone and the petty cheater is now looked upon as mean and contemptible. These things have disappeared because of public opion against them. Seminars must be starved out in the same way by the students themselves. Self respect and loyalty to the best interests of Harvard should be sufficient motive for the overthrow of this system which...