'-ol'uii9ltiy,' , April :26, 1921!
:MINING - HEAD URGES _
- HONOR SYSTEM CHANGES
Dean E. S. Moore Opposes Present
Methods and Explains Proctor
and Honor Systems.
Editor of The Collegian
I have been following ulth much In
terest the letters and editorials on the
Honor System which have appetlred in
the COLLEGIAN during recent months
This is one of the most important sub
jects with whloh the student body and
faculty are at present concerned and
with your kind permission I would like
to Offer a few comments on It' -
It should perhaps be admitted that
when the Honor System was suggested
for the Institution I opposed its adop
tion, not- because the system is not a
good ono whore It is lived up to, In fact
it is an ideid system In principle, but I
felt Ahat wo were not quite ready for
'it A number of other institutions had
tried It without SUCCeEI9 where the stud
ent body was not less noted than hero
for honesty In examinations , However,
while developments have shown thtit
my opinion - on the subject wail correct
I take no personal satisfaction but rath
er experience regret that It resulted
thus and wish to state also that since
the system was adopted by -vote of the
faculty and students I have at all tim
es fully supported it :
-An 'Manor system cannot possibly
work unless there Is an overwhelming
sentiment for It In the student body.
The signing of a pledge will not stop
cheating as a man who will cheat
when placed on' his honor does not
count his word or Sven his signed
statement of importance It ho cheats
Is he going to cofess It In the pledge?
The psychology of the crated Is what
governs-the actions of the majority
Lessening punishing' will -not stop
It eV! have a clipping from the Public
Ledger stating that this had been tried
at the 'Wharton School with the result
that the system only became more In
efficient
The nrocair system Is as dlstsileful
to the faculty as to the students but
,many students bake a very wrong view
of the position of the instructor in such
cases. 'The honest student has no more
resent in having an instructor prod
,torlng in a room than the honest man
has In seeing an officer of the law on
a city street or a judge Ina court room
I was - much surprised at a statement
which appeared recently especially com
ing from a group for which I have
great respect, to the effect that if a
student cheated when a proctor was In
the room the student lost nothing and
the - Instructor was the loser Mould
any honest man think that he lost
nothing, in moral or social standing if
he committed a crime just because he
raw.,an officer of the law on a street
Placed 'there for the apprehension of
crooks, not honest people' Would his
family, his city or his country lose
'nothing-by hie act? When proctoring
an examination every instructor knows
' that he has men in his class who are
just' as honest as he is himself and
whom he would trust just as (tar as he
would himself. These men, who have
nothing to fear should aid him in_up
`-'ll6llllng` the; standards , of their Alma
r:Mator-;_One ean.imagine-nothing much
, %+worsathan for a man to graduate from
t'ansinetitution and after-he has become
a mature man and the little differences
~b etween students and faculty have fad
' ed into insignificance he wants to em
.`,'..ploy dependable moo but cannot go to
_his own - institution for them since he
, Kknows that men do not get through the
— institution by honest effort.
I recently observed an objection in
'-your columns to the practice of giving
";two sets' of questions to a class an if
",IC were indicating a distrust of the
- students. I can peareely comprehend
, ouch an objection being made. Every
„normal, red-blooded human being at
times of stress le subject to temptation,
in fact It has been written of the purest
- man In history that "ho W. tempted in
all points Into as we are." It is to a
man's credit not to yield but we know
• that the majority of people can only
Stand temptation to a certain degree
and that any man knowing his weak
, nese is a fool if he deliberately places
himself4as closely as possible in lino
with the ,temptation The man ivho de.
liberately places temptation within easy
reach of 'another is criminally respon
sible. If you_ or I have an appetite for
strong drink ,would we thank a man
:for setting a' glass of-the liquor under
our nose at a moment of weakness and
-going away. leaving us-there to fall
a victim instead of helping us to keep
'away 'from' it? I am arguing for the
man who would be honest if he had - a
chance and a little help ,There is no
- denying the_fact that there are ,some
dishonest.students in every Institution,
to - deny that would deny the necessity
of an honor system Its pledges,
mittees, etc -
There him been some tendency to lay
the blame on the faculty which le shill,.
ly a desire to shift the responsibility
It anyone can show me why It would
not be Infinitely more pleasant for an
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NEED OF. MISSIONARIES
SHOWN AT CONFERENCE
Men of,"Daddy" Groff Type Doing
Much 'Good in Mission Field—
Need for More Men Shown
At the conference of the society of
Agricultural /Missions held recently at
Amhetst, Mass, a ivorld wide need was
presented and discussed, many details
of which me of interest to Penn State
students Penn State's delegate was
the only aarliultumi College represent
ative from outside Now England, and
it is worth , noting that this Is the only
College maietaining an ex
pert in foreign lands
For many decades the missionary de
voted himself to evangelistic-and edu
cational Monti, and It was with some
difficulty that this conventionalized
program teas widened to Include the
medical :missionary Today, however,
with-broadening concepts of social res
ponsibility theta have become evident
other "needs fully as-pressing and fun
damental, and Into the service for hu
manity are being summoned engineers,
agriculturists and commercially trained
leaders.
At the Amherst conference were as
sembled nearly all of the leading agri
cultdial missionaries of the world
"Daddy" Groff, Penn State's repre
sentative at Canton Christian College,
vats one of the speakers, and with him
was Dr Reisner from Shanghai, and
four others not engaged In agriculture
Di Sam Higginbottom, who Is doing
a great work for agriculture In India,
and Case, from Burmah, anotherpion
eer in this field, also made impt essive
addresses These men and other speak
ers showed that a very great need ex
ists in countries like China, India,-Af
rim, and South Anted= foe men and
women with a background of agri
cultural training - From seventy' to
ninay tier cent of the 100010 of thew
countreis are in rural districts and for
thorn the most pressing economic need
Is the Improvement of their agriculture 1
In China this situation is aggravated
by conditions demanding vast engin
eering ill Wawa td control Goods, es-tend
Irrigation systems, build railroads, and
dot clop mines For the next genera
tion at least, leadership In all of, these
enterpt ises must came from the outside
'fo a man.who, like Mr. Groff, and Sam
Hlgginbottom, is-trained in agricul
ture, a great field fora very broad and
very rich service is open in the un
devoloptsd countries of the world. 'When
Sam Higginbottom event to .Allahabad,
ho found the natives producing forty
pounds of very poor, short fibre cotton
to the acre His efforts at Improve
ment which resulted in four hundred
Pounds of good quality long_fibre, cot
ton to the acre not only serve to lift
tae natives out of economic misery, but
constitute a distinct e.ontribution to
world betterment.
Instructor to be able to leave all—res
ponslblllty for examinations to stud
onto-while he goes off to play golf, to
fish or to carry on some work in which
he is interested than to proctor an ex
amination and prosecute offenders, I
would like to meet him. Ono of the
distasteful featiyes of teaching Is the
reading. of blue book., It is drudgery.
_and ,whilo I - suppOse it is,too-much-for
us to expect a .student is realize It
while in college yet when he 'ls older
he must give an instructor credit for
the sacrifice of much pleasure to him
at least trying to do his duty even at
self when he finds it necessary to
"flunk" a student The same spirit
should prevail as prevails among good
sportsmen, If they lose they should
lose honestly and in the proper spirit
To cheat because an examination is
hard is no accuse If the students set
their own examinations where would
we be? Can a man ?lift himself by
his toes?"
I sincerely hope that we may have a
real honor system VOe cannot contin
ue with a system which is regarded by
students as a :'joke" Only when the
sentiment of the students Is predomin
antly In favor of such a system will it
work. If the students are not whole
heartedly In favor of it they should
abolish it but If we return to the proc
tor system let us havenn understand
lag of mutual respect and cooperation
between the honest students and the
Instructor who Is doing his duty faith
fully as only In that way can we save
the fair name of this Institution
Elwood S. - Moore -
Dean of the School of Minw
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Branch of Time-Honored Old Nil
- low Intended to Take Place-of
Decayed Ancestor
In 1858, Professor William G. Waring'',
eho was then serving as Professor of
Hot ticulture at The Pennsylvania State
College, set out a small tree on the east
side of Allen street neat Old Main This
tiee-mew to large size awl became one
of the land dim of - the college It Is
known to all thing graduates and ex- ' I
students who have left Penn State since
the ttee was planted The tree is known
lit all as — The Old • ,
"The Old Willow". is fast dying and
will not last much longer: A year ago
lightning shattered one branch of the
tree so badly that it had to.bo removed.
The xemalning branch is In a very
much :wakened , condition and may
base to he removed at almost any time
A great deal of attention has been
given the old tree to preset . , it by the,
College authorities and by the depart
men of Landscape Gardening, but to
no avail.
'The Old Willow which appeared to
be two trees Wes In reality but one
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When Iglnaliv planted thee - giound at
this point was much towel and a pond
often formed al ound the tree. The
ground surface was later raised by fill
ing in up to the point whole the willow
sent out two large - main branches' So
that what now appears at the ground
sulfa. Is In reality the crotch of the
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old tree some four or flve feet above
the original surface
The old tree is dying, but it shall not
die Three years ago, Mt J. H War
ing, an Instructor in ?ontology at tile
college, and a grandson of Professor
Waring toolc a small branch from the
old tine and stuck it into the ground.
Title to tradition the branch grew and
Is no. a small tree This "chip flout
the old bionic" Is now being transplant
ed so that it will stand at the side of
- the patent tree as long as it is con-
Blamed safe for the old tree to stand.
When the old tree Is gone the "new
tillloa" en tomato to continuo sti
ment in so far as It can A second
;marker nlll be placed upon the stone
_tablet In commemoration of the event
Beside "Old Main" no other feature
on the campus has been more cherished
4nd remembered than "The - old -wil
low:" Let us one and all help to keep
the old tree as long as possible and
give the now ono every chance to grow
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GIVE ENJOYABLE CONCERT
The annual combined musicale of the
Penn State Mandolin Club. the College
Glee Club and the Varsity Quartet,
Ntinch %sus held In the Auditorium on
Sa.l.utday melting, mas ono of the beet
°ter olden at Penn State Each club
nun at Its bent and the large crowd
that filled the Auditorium greatly en
joed the concert The selections St 11101
n ere played N, era all of a popular na
ture
The eonecot wte opened by the Glee
I Club eith . Tho Tao Grenadiers' by
A Kohut Schumann Thf numbet N, bleb
1,,; %toe cepeelally ittrangeti by Profesoor
;e,, n0)4119011 tO fit the iier,onnel of the
,1.1 elute Oct tt ith 2 tnyi l.eQ success, 00
a their laet Lourataner for the evening
the Chico Club gate "The Nlttany Lion"
In t cc" lllll leg manner This vas
the fit‘t appearance of the Glee Club
401 since Penns3hlnia.- Day and the Ic
, A ceptlon alt a they tecii‘cd It as emtainly
"t. a m one
The Mandolin Club under the dime
lion of H. Dishburn '22 gave "The
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42 Horne Tenn Band, Ishii° the Mandolin
Qua ter and the Banjo Club, groups of
sCpleuebiAl gave
e everal
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k' 1,3 the Corn Quartet composed of Miss
es Fulton, Dana, Thomp,on and Erb
and Miss Houston as accompanist This
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<mallet forced to return sclera!
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t The blr; hit of the evening was the
Varsity Male Quartet. The quartet op
erred with the number for which they
we, e scheduled "The Phantom Band"
a humorous selection, but before they
uera
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gram All of the selections nhich the
caN Caere of a humorous nature an.
very popular.
Foliiiitlng the custom of other yeat
medals store presented to the member
of tho Glee and Mandolin Clubs wit
sorted three bears The presentation
_mere made by W. A. Sloeteing '2:
stesldent of the Glee Club and Hummt
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NEW, EXPERIMENTAL PLOT
The Forestry Department has just
completed the setting out of a 7500 tree
plantation of whits and red pine and
Norway apt ace They were secured
horn the Pennsylvania State Forestry
Dep ottnent, being mown at the Green
000d nursery end ate too of three year
old seedlings The plantation is locat
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an experimental stalest, these seed
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