Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resignation from college, departed for a farm near Amherst, 90 miles away in the New Hampshire hills. Dartmouth's Dean Lloyd Kellock Neidlinger, who knew where Gates had gone, went after him. On the farm was a branch of a famed old New England cult-the Holy Ghost and Us Society (or Legion...
Thus the last drawback would be removed to the practice of including prepared essays in as many courses as possible. If ghost writing were eliminated and the burden on seniors from too many written papers relieved, the advantages from such a course of action should convince even the most conservative members of the University that an essay is a more searching and a more accurate test of a student's ability than an hour exam...
There are a thousand stories about ghost writing; the student who spent fifty dollars to have his honors thesis written for him and received a D for his money, and the men who merely spent a dollar each week a few years ago and then could forget about their English A themes, are only two examples. Yet these stories represent a serious problem for the University that will remain as long as even a small percentage of students continue to be downright dishonest. Individual "ghosts" and organizations of them, local and national, plying their trade now as they have...
...even more important that every student should be made to see the light. If impossible to convince them that ghost writing is unethical, then it is necessary to show them its impracticality and risk. Correctors should check up every unusual reference (the suspicious attitude is unfortunate but necessary), and by this vigilance and by the severity of the punishment inflicted, they should fill the hearts of would-be wrongdoers with great doubts. Moreover, professors should be wary of assigning the same essay topics several years in a row, because stacks of ancient essays have a habit of developing...
...best means, however, to prevent the occurrence of ghost writing in a course, is to have the instructor who corrects the papers establish close relations with all the members of the class, and have interviews with them before each paper is due to criticize their outlines and bibliographies. Very few students will go to a "ghost" if they have already done most of the work themselves. In this way the small percentage of the college who cause so much trouble might be dissuade from their practices; and the major drawback to the custom of assigning essays removed. After that, little...