Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with other equally necessary reforms, a college degree might be made to represent a certain understood amount of solid acquirement, which it certainly does not now." This is emphatic language, - perhaps too emphatic ; but that the present examination system is an abuse, and very nearly an imposition and a fraud, is an opinion which is coming to be held by so many nowadays that it cannot be laughed away. That it is a necessary reform that the present system of examinations should be abolished, is becoming more and more evident. That this fact is beginning to be appreciated...
...Windsor, England, the insane American student, Hare, has been acquitted of the charge of petty fraud, but has been detained as a person of unsound mind...