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and outwit officers; but simply what is a gentleman, a man of
honor, expected to do? The answer to this question indicates to
him the course of conduct he must pursue. Each student thus be
comes the administrator of the law upon himself. Of course, no
system will make knaves virtuous; there will be cheats and liars,
tergiversations, prevarications, dissimulations, while boys are
boys and men are men. We have to purge the flock of black
sheep, now and again. But after all, the honor system, as a
means of regulating and directing a body of students, is with us
efficient and highly satisfactory,”
Continuing, the same writer says: 1 ‘ This spirit penetrates and
regulates all collegiate government in the South, but as a rule it is
not administered on ordinary occasions. In class, for instance,
the student does not consider himself under obligation to abstain
from prompting, peeping, and the like small strategies of the idle
and indifferent. If, however, the request is made that he take no
such advantage he obeys readily. Pranks, skylarking, wild
sophistications, and skillful fencing with the professor, in the
effort to make that inquisitorial agent believe that the student
knows all about it—these the undergraduate hardly regards as
coming under the honor rule. ’ ’
Speaking of the honor system in examination, the writer says:
‘‘The student who dares to break his pledge is held to have dis
honored his classmates and fellow-students, and they are quick
to arrest, convict and expel such delinquents. * * * The
utmost kindness is displayed by these students in shielding and
helping the criminal in every way they may; but the sentence of
dismissal is inexorably administered, Thus do our boys guard
theii own and their college’s sacred honor, and put away evil
from among us. Such action is far more effective for both disci
pline and pievention than any possible action of boards and
faculties. ’ ’
STATE, B—ADEEBERT, 8
The last game of the season was played at Cleveland, Ohio, on
Thanksgiving Day. The game was not a surprise. The team
was very far irom being in the condition in which it played Cor
nell or Pennsylvania.
The Cleveland Leader , in commenting on the game, says:
‘ Brown and Thomas were particularly strong in advancing the
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