Telegram-herald., 1889-07-08


'oosa 3zai1. yea do f>ol.
Perhaps oss Il tie s.oss kec tricks
psagsa ~ Harvard was peryessstsd %
good ed DE-. Peabody, 1hs va IS atzd
hearted al old zelg.esaas.sa ss hs = - absent
Hslsde~. IL sas al a. exam aAElo1 IA
ass.i Philosophy. A stadeat = 10 wssE's
~ al prepared "a tA< sat, ,sct sens int
TIE eAansaataoss sId aster staying per-
ssps ssentf minutes .~nt cur, takisx his
sxanli1at1oa eo0x Ana pape vita AHA
be s&s2 seGt 10 kls Fsosz za1 Nlta LA
cbaa's Assistance sro1s cat as.Sr> 70
the questions. Going 10 The yard again
tie stuztsss had = ~Al-ysred conversation
vita . small boy to ~Ao3a &c gave hAlf q
dollar with this result. NEsu the exam
i1xt30n was over ana Dr. Peabody sa.
xoisg home with pile q blgz book. uaesr
has srn. the aforesaid small boy rashet
up 20 hin. from isehlnd, and plueking his
sleeve said; SAY. aaistsr. yer dropped sae
Of yer books" The sid doctor pattsd the
urebia on tns head and kindiy thanked
him. At Sic same time hand AK hitn a q me-.
then be sucked the book under his arm
And continued On his way. OF course the
WHY sat wicked student got through all
right. but he aidu't know much about
Morai Philosophy all the same
Another practice that maintained &C
Harvard in the early seventies and even
late as - was the raising OF money sy
the students with which 10 buy . proof
sheet Of the sxaminssion paper. That
shs practise existed Was we'll known 10
students As The college who had no need TO
resort TO such means to pass their sxsmi-
nation and IL would have been frownsd
down as once and the eainy parties would
have been ostrsciIsd socially had il not
been for she fact that none OF the men
who went into the scheme were dessrous
OF getting a high mark for the sake or
honors. their only desire being 10 get
through the examination with the least
work possible. This. Of course. wrought
no injury To any one exceps the partici-
pants In the fraud. The method pursued
was 10 have ten men elab togsther aud
sontributs go apiece OF . total OF 500
Somstinies twenty men would be ia the
secret when the cost would be but $40
each This money would be handed 10 "a
certain Individual, who shall be nsmeieSs.
who would go TO the printers devil aud
have him surreptitiously abstract "a proof
for which he would get $50 from the go
between Even after the faculty took the
preeaution OF having the papers printed
inside the Yard" over toe Bursar's
office. the night before the examination
this scheme was possible because he could
drop 10 out OF . window at AN early hour
In the morning and only few hours wers
necessary To enable the conspirators To
prepare answers to given set OF question,
particularly as SO per cent. was ordinarily
the highest mark aimed at, as that
was sufficient to take of entrance condi-
ions.
But even after the proof was bought is
was not always plain sailing with the
undergraduates who wanted degree
without work and there were several
curious and even humorous instances
where the bitter was I'm the end bitten
For instance, once geometry paper was
bought during the freshman year of n
certain class which was divided into two
sections, one under Professor Byerly and
the other under Professor Briggs. IL Was
supposed that both sections would have
to answer the same questions. There
were twenty men In the pool and the next
morning the faces OF the men who had
bought the paper made n study. There
had been only one proof obtained for all,
but as luck would have it each instructor
had made up a separate examination
paper. The Byerly men were all right for
secured The men who belonged TO his
division and had bought the paper were
as smiling as Mickey Welch when he ia
pitching good ball while the looks OF the
Briggs men were so 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 correctly. One fao-
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while the unlucky ones all failed ignomin-
iously.
"In another case there was an even fun
nier occurrence. II happened when rho
algebra paper was bought somewhere
about '7S G.. J. White, the College
Registrar was the Professor OF Algebra,
and while he was popular with the boys
he was considered the most acute, or, To
use a colloquallism, the most 'hy'
member of the faculty. Well, the boys
bought his paper or rather the proof Of
III and many OF them took blue books into
the examination in which they had the
examples all worked out through the aid
Of competent tutors. But it seems that
the willy Mr.. White had also received a
proof o. the examination paper and
whether he suspected any funny business
or not he altered sign in a certain ex-
ample. | don't remembey exactly what it
was now but IL was something like this:
Raise (axb 70 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 she minus sign. Naturally the change
was not noticed and number of the boys
who had worked out that particular
problem were caught and met with dire
consequences as result. But perhaps the
most distressing case at that particular
examination was the fate OF a Soph omore
who had been conditioned in algebra
freshman year. He was one of those who
had purchas the paper and had brought
to the examination duplicate blue book
with enough examples worked out TO give
him 20 per cent. which would remove his
condition. From previous experience he
knew that the instructors marked the
books Of conditioned men with a certain
kind Of crayon 40 thas their books might
be distinguished from those Of the Fresh
men who were compelled 20 get % 3 per
sent. while they had - get 20 per cent.
This particular Sophomore being fore
warned went iRto the examination with
I've ersyons Of different colors concealed
about bis person He had red blue. green
yellow. and purple crayons With him.
whSn 70 ms dismay he found his book
marked With bright pink orayon
and not daring 10 substitute = book
with smother color ON 10 be left the
room .till 9 conditioned maS sud minus
his so.
A. the s'Itsev.ry ConvsRttsp-"
Staffer-These conventions are sdrnirs-
hIe things for promoting the highest
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