Word: cribber
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from stopping the discussion let us continue it until the practice stands revealed in all its disgusting details, and the whole body of students unite in branding the "cribber" as unfit for the society of Harvard men, whether his aim be forty per cent. or seventy-five...
...difference between cheating in an examination, and telling a direct falsehood. In order to correct this state of public opinion, every student should carefully consider cribbing first, as it effects himself, and secondly, in its application to college interests. Self respect is essential to a good reputation. Can the cribber respect himself, and can be expect, that on sober thought, his friends and the college public in general will respect him? Excuse cribbing as much as you can, and the fact that an excuse is needed, shows that all is not right...
Cribbing reaches beyond the reputation of the cribber. It has a broader application. Every Harvard student is interested at heart in maintaining the integrity of his college. Cribbing endangers this integrity; it lowers the meaning of a college degree. Harvard's veritas should never become in any measure tainted with hypocrisie...
...view of these two directions in which cribbing is effective, we would make an earnest appeal to every student to look at things as they are, and from the conviction that must necessarily follow, revolutionize college opinion, so that the cribber will be regarded a cheat worthy only of ostracism...
...themselves to raise the student sentiment and discourage cribbing as unfair and unprofitable. Let the proctors be removed from examination rooms, make every man responsible to himself and college for honesty in examinations, let college sentiment be strongly impressed on everyone as to what honesty means, and then every cribber will feel that he is out of place, and the coolness with which he will meet, will lead him to think soberly of what he is doing...