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...exams, like those at approximately one-fifth of the nation's colleges, are conducted on the honor system, without proctors. At Colorado Springs, students may take the same tests days apart. As potential officers and gentlemen, cadets are expected not to cheat. Those who fail to report a cribber are subject to the same stiff punishment (expulsion) as the cheater himself.* The cadet manual warns that "there will be no shading, no equivocation, no quibbling among honorable...
...with the Vatican (the Administration building). He turns from a crip (easy course) and throws himself into cemetery working (tough studying). After hard work, his grades should be boxed, racked or knocked. But if he is still not sure whether he can grease (just pass), he may turn rider (cribber). He finds a pony to ride or gets a cheat sheet and then, all saddled up, feels ready to face even Flunkenstein, the prof's IBM grading machine...
...Cribber's Ultima Thule
...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...
...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...