Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-01-16
ouTWITTING THE FACULTY.


various Devices OF Students to Pass Ex-
aminations Without Study.
At 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, hav-
ing been at one examination where each
student drew separate slip of question,
he met classmate who had to go in with
the next division. "The thing is not likely
to be chance" he said to his friend '.but
in case you should draw the paper had,
Pll tell you what each question was" So
he did. The fellow looked them up, went
in and drew that very paper, and came out
triumphant.
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,
pu5 his own interli ned text book into his
ovSrcoat pocket, and entered the room. He
Wr5 called to the desk, and the tutor
.zsaFe him text book, of course not inter-
lined. 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. Being asked for the book he apollo
gized, hauled out the other one, and re-
tired.
Once in alumni hall at Yale a shaky stu
dent who couldn't bear to part with his
class discovered in advance a knothole in
the floor. He secured the desk by that
hole. Pretty soon he had the misfortune
to drop his pencil. Bending over for it he
showed his examination paper down
IL. 1r,1o
in the cellar ran off with it, filled out pa
pers for him, not too well, but well enough
to save him, for a perfectly correct exam
nation was not consistent with his record,
and on returning signaled to him. This
time he had the misfortune to knock lot
of paper off his table and litter the floor.
He got down and conscientiously picked
everything up, including the relief papers
that came up through the knothole.
At another time where papers were
drawn one fellow drew two by sleight of
hand process, passed on one, surrendered
it and went out. Then he gave the extra
one to lame friend, who at once "cram-
med" that paper. Then he went in, drew
his paper and calmly substituted the one
he knew, passing we'll on it and carrying
away for what might be termed outdoor
relief the paper that he drew. This was
kept going all day and worked well.
Another fellow, illustrating alike the
sharpness of the boy and the laziness of
the professor, having practically no knowl-
edge of one heavy subject that had been a
study for the term, went to the record
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 six questions,
there was good deal of repetition. Know
ing these questions thoroughly, and not
word outside of them, he went in, and,
sure enough the professor had drawn suf-
fciently on his earlier papers to enable
this fellow to answer moro than enough
to pass him. AS for the rest, his paper
was blank-Hartford Courant.