Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...contributing in the long run to our own welfare and safety. On exactly the same principle the honest student values the protection which the proctor's presence affords. It gives a significance to his grades and to his diploma which they would otherwise lack. It protects him from unjust suspicion in making inquiry about the time, borrowing a pencil, or in making other proper communications. The honor system may work better than inefficient proctoring as a discourager of cribbing; but if it is to be compared with efficient proctoring it cannot supply the element of guaranty, unless it involves...
...that tropical isthmus, have made it so healthy as to be almost a health resort, and have expended huge sums of money with vigilant economy as well as with singular efficiency in the actual work on the canal, and have done it so that there is not even a suspicion of a dollar having been taken by any of them. Very, very few private business concerns, no matter how well administered, can show such a high standard of probity and efficiency as has obtained among the men doing the work on the Panama Canal...
...which will oppose Princeton next Saturday. This fact alone ought to suppress over-confidence. When we add that Yale has been known time and again to "come Back" even as late as the second half with the score 10 to 0 against her, there should not remain the least suspicion of overconfidence...