Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-01-27
ouTwITTING THE FACULTY.
various Devices of Students to Pass Ex-
amiHntions Withnrt Sfndr

Various Devices of Students to Pass Ex-
amisations Without Study.
At recent meeting of a number of col
iege men in Hartford conversation hap
pened TO drift TO the trials and struggles
OF examination days. II was led that way
oy the flrst story teller who said that, hay-
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
20 be chance" he said to his friend, but
IN case you should draw the paper had,
III 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. 1t 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
overcoat pocket. and entered the room. He
was called to the desk, and the tutor
gave him n 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
AAAA N-N'S AZ Ct%cA lHtO us ana turned
away Being asked for the book he apollo
glzed, hauled out the other one, and re-
tired
Once in alumni hall at Yale a shaky stu
dent who couldn't bear 10 part with his
class discovered in advance a knethole 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
through the knothole. Fellows in waiting
IN the cellar ran off with it. filed out pa
pers for him, not too well. but well enough
70 save him, for a perfectly correct exam
Inatlon was not consistent with his record
ana on returning signaled to him This
time he had the misfortune to knock a lot
OF paper of his table and litter the floor.
he got down and conscientioQsly picked
everything up, including the relief papers
that came up through the Enothole.
AT another time where papers were
drawn one fellow drew two by sleight of
hand process, passed on one, surrendered
1t and went out. Then he gave the extra
one TO lame friend, who at once cram
med" that paper. Then he went il. drew
his paper and calmly substituted the one
he knew, passing well on it and carving
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 Iaz.uess of
the professor, having practically no knowl-
edge Of one heavy subject that bad been a
study for the term, went to the record
and learned by heart the answers to each
OF the 9.lve 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 dawn suf-
iiciently on his earlier papers TO enab =
this fellow TO answer more than euourl,
To pass lin. A. for the rest. his nancr
Wa ii blank.-Hartford Courant.