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...even more interesting (though dishonest) explanation was furnished by Communist Licausi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Caesar with Palm Branch | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...lack of sleep, a good number of students will resent the ubiquitous exam proctor as he casually walks around the room and stays close to people going out for a cigarette. The reason there is no honor system at Harvard is not because the students are immature or dishonest, but because the College has many men and little social compactness. Another reason is that the complaints have never been very loud...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 4/26/1947 | See Source »

...general plea for an honor system, coupled with determination to enforce it on the student level, it might be put gradually into effect. Such a move could have the advantage of creating a healthier attitude toward college courses and exams, but the result also can be disastrous. The few dishonest people around will stay dishonest and make the honor system a farce unless the social pressure favoring it is enormous, and at the present there is no such pressure. An alternative at some schools that ostensibly have no policemen is a secret service of student council workers mixing with exam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 4/26/1947 | See Source »

...This attitude," claimed Fairbank, "is most obvious in the case of militaryminded Americans who sincerely belive that we should support any regime aborad which will oppose Russia. We appear in China to be not only selfish and stupid, but dishonest as well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chen, Fairbank Score Inept U. S. Policy for China | 12/7/1946 | See Source »

...enthusiasm for his work naturally increases when the lady with the bankroll turns out to be Geraldine Fitzgerald. In time, of course, True Love, plus a visit to the mission at Capistrano, makes a new, upright man of Mr. Garfield. After his redemption, a few of his still dishonest associates have to be disposed of in some last-reel gunplay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Nov. 18, 1946 | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

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