Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Curiously, the idea of an honor system at examinations hasn't occurred in the crusading form for some time. The panegyric in an adjacent column may stir the hearts of Harvard men to take noble resolves to abide by the code, but some how it appears that the situation is reversed by the analysis therein set forth. The honor code as elaborated for the youth of the land looks more juvenile than any system of moderate supervision...
...copy his neighbor's work nor resort to any of the time honored tricks to get by. He is made to realize that if during these examinations his conduct is not becoming a gentleman's he is likely to be requested by the authorities to leave. The whole honor code in school work is well enough known not to need any further elaboration. The student understands its implications and is flattered by the reliance placed on his sense of responsibility and honor. He takes noble resolves to abide by the code...
This appears to me to be a very cynical attitude on the part of the University. The code of honor is apparently encouraged only to make the monitor's labors easier. But it rests with either the monitor or the student to prevent cheating; if it's the monitor's job, then the responsibility is not the student's. He can cheat as much as he please provided he is not caught; and if he is caught he must be punished not for an ethical offense, but for violating a class room regulation, and such a punishment would...
...Revision of the 25 or more U. S. Dry Laws into a simple, unified code...
...CRIMINAL CODE-What is liable to happen in jails...