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...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...
...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...
...plan, seemingly rash, is often used, and by its very daring is frequently successful. Writing paper, such as is used in the examinations, is procured, and two or three sheets are closely covered with formulae or whatever else is likely to prove useful. When the time comes for the "cribber" to enter the examination room he places the sheets under his tightly-but-toned coat, walks boldly into the lions' den, seats himself at his table, and hastens to write a page or two of something or other. Just what it is doesn't matter. The main object...
...Song of the Cribber" in the last Crimson should have been credited to the Columbia Spectator...