The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-26
oUTWIrTING THE FACULTY.
Various Devices of Students to Pass
Examinations Without Study.
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Examinations Without Study.
From the Hartford Courdnt.
At a recent meeting of number of col
lege men in Hartford, conversation hap
pened to drift to the trials and struggles Of
examination days. 1t was led that way by
the first story teller, who SAID that, having
been at one examination where each student
drew separate slip of questions he met q
classmate who had to 60 in with the next
division. THE thing is not likely to be a
chance" he said to his friend, "but, in case
you should draw the paper l had, I'll tell
you what each question was" So he did.
The fellow looked them up. went in. and
drew that very paper, aud came out uri-
umphant.
But that proved very mild case when
the others came up. It seems that in one
examination at Yale some years ago in
Latin one fellow, who was very shaky, put
his own interlined text book into his over
coat pocket and entered the room. He was
called to the desk and the tutor gave him a
text book, OF course, not interlined. He
showed it into his other pocket, walked
slowly back to his seat, drew out his own
book from his pocket, and was all prepared
After reciting, before the tutor could call
for the book, he absent-mindedly thrust it
back into his pocket and turned away. Be-
ing asked for the book he apologized, hauled
out the other and retired.
Once in alumni hall at Yale shaky stu
dent who couldn't bear to part with his
class, discovered in advance knot hole in
the floor. He secured tho desk by that hole
Pretty soon he had the misfortune to drop
his pencil. Bending over for it he showed
his examination paper down through the
knot hole. Fellows in waiting in the cellar
ran off with IL. filed out papers for him,
not too we'll, but we'll enough to save him,
for a perfectly correct examination was not
consistent with his record, and on returning
signalled to him. This time he had the
misfortune to knock lot of paper off his
table and litter the floor. He got down and
consclentiouslY picked everything up, in
Guiding the relief papers that came up
through the knot hole.
At another time. where papers were
drawn, one fellow drew two by sleight-ot-
hand process. passed on one, surrendered it,
and went out Then he gave the extra one
to lame friend, who at once ''crammedn
that paper. Then he went in, drew his pa
per and calmly substituted the one he knew,
passed well on it, and carrying away, for
what might, be termed outdoor relief, the
paper that he drew. This was kept going
ali day and worked as we'll as surreptl-
tious en- Eelope under the Connecticut secret
ballot box.
Another fellow, illustrating alike the
sharpness of the boy and the laziness of the
professor. having practically no knowledge
of one heavy subject had been a study for
the term, went to the records and learned
by heart the answers TO each of the twelve
questions asked in each OF the previous
years, discovering the while that instead OF
being thirty-sx questions, there was good
deal of repetition. Knowing these Ques-
lions thoroughly, and not word outside of
them, he went in, and, sure enough, the
professor had drawn sufficiently on his
earlier papers to enable this fellow t.
answer more than enough to pass him. A,
for the rest, his paper was blank.