The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-02

time handing him dime; then he tucked
the book under his arm continued on
his way. fcourse the willy but wicked
student got through all right, but he didn't
know much about moral philosophy all the
same.
Another practice that maintained at
Harvard in the early '7U's and even as late
as rs was raising of money by the students
with which 70 buy a proof sheet Of the eX-
ami IatiOn paper. That this practice ex-
listed was well known to students at the col
lege who had no need to resort to such
means TO pass their examination, and 1t
would have been frowned down at once
and the guilty parties would have been os-
tracsed socially had it not been Tor the
fact that none Of the men who went into
the scheme were DESTROYS Of getting q hlgl
marx for the sake of honOrs, their only de-
sire being to get through the examination
with the least work possible. This, or
course, wrought no injury TO any one ex-
cept the participants IN the fraud The
method pursued was to have ten men club
tOge her and contrib tie $50 apiece or
total of $500. Sometimes twenty men
would be in the secret when he cost would
be but 80 each. This money would be
HANDED 10 a certain individual who shall
be nameess who would 20 to the printers
'devIln and have him surreptitiously alb
stract proof for which he would get $50
from the go-between. Even after the IA
Guilty took the precaution of having the
papers printed inside the yard" over the
Bdrsar's Office, the night before the exaInl-
nation this scheme was possible because he
he could drop it out of a window at any
early hOur in the morning and only few
hours were necessary to enable the conspra.
tors to prepare answers to gwen set OF
questions, particularly as so per cent. was
ordinarily the highest mark aimed at, as
no RI faL of
con iitions.
But even after the proof was bought
it was not always plain sailing with the
undergraduates who wanted degree vita
out work, and there were several curious
and even humorous instances where the
bitter was in the end bitten. For instance,
once geometry paper was bougA during
the freshman year of certain class which
was divided into two sections, one under
Prof. Bryerly and the other under Prof.
B iggs. 1t was supposed that botn sections
would have to answer the same questions.
There were twenty men in the pool and the
next morning the faces of the men VINO had
bought the paper made study. There ha
been only one proof obtained for all, but as
luck would have it each instructor had
made up a separate examination paper.
The Bryeriy men We're all right, for 1t was
a Bryerly proof that had bee secured.
The men who belonged to his division and
hal bought the paper were as smiling as
Mickey WEIGH when he is pitching good
ball while the looks of the Briggs men were
50 black that those near them could hardly
see to write. One question on both papers
was, however, Identical, and the whole
syndicate solved that one problem cor
rectly One faction of course got through
all right while the unlucky ones all failed
ignom niously.
in another case there was an even fun
nier occurrence. 1t happened when the
algebra paper was bought somewhere about
rs. G. j. White, the college registrar, was
the professor of algebra, and while he was
popular with the boys ne was considered
the most acute, or, to use a colloquialism,
the most ely" member of the faculty.
Well, the boys bought his paper or rather
the proof of it and many of them took blue
books into the eXamina, ion in which they
had the examples worked out through the
aid OF competent tutors. But it seems that
the willy Mr.. White had also received a
proof of the examination paper and
whether he suspected any funny business
or not he altered a sign in certain exam
pie. / don't remember exactly what it
was now, but it was something like this:
Raise (axb to the NTH power, In the
proof and Mr.. White in revising the proof
made the question read this way; Raise
(axb) to the NTH power, simply leaving out
not noticed and number Of the bows who
had worked out that particular problem
were caught and met with dire coase-
quences as result. But perhaps the most
distressing case at that particular examin-
alton was the fate of a sophomore who had
been conditioned in algebra freshman year.
He was one of those who purchased the
paper and had brought to the examination
a duplicate blue book with enough exam
pies worked out to give him so per cent.
which would remove his condition. From
previous experience he knew that the in
structorS marked the books of conditioned
men with certain kind of crayon SO that
t cir books might be distinguished from
those of the freshmen who were compelled
to get 80 1-3 per cent. while they
had to get 80 per cent. This particular
sophomore being forewarned went into the
examination with five crayons of different
colorS concealed about his person. He had
red, blue, green, yellow and purple cray
ons with him when to his dlsmay he found
his book marked with bright pink crayon
and not daring to substitute book with
another color on it he left the room still
conditioned man aud minus his $50.