The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1891-02-12
OUTWlTTlNC THE FACULTY.
Various Devies of Students to Pass Ex-
aminations Without Study.
At a recent meeting of a numb

At a recent meeting of number of
college men in Hartford, conversation
happened 10 drift 10 the trials and
struggles of examination days, says the
CosuaRt 1t was LED that way by the
first story teller. who said that having
been at one examination where each
student drew Il separate slip of ques-
tions he met elassmate wha had to 60
in with the next division. The thing
is not likely to be chance" he said
to his friend, but in ease you should
draw the paper / had I'll tell you what
each question was" So he did. The
fellow looked them up, went in, and
drew that very paper, and caple out
triumphant.
But that proved very mild case
when the others came up. 1t seems
that in one examination ut Yale some
years ago in Latin one fellow. who was
very skaky, put his own interlined text
book into his oycrcoat pocket aud
entered the room. He was called to
the desk and the tutor gave him text
book, of course, not interlined. He
showed il into his other pocket, walked
slowly back To his seat. drew out his
own book from his pocket and was all
prepared. After rectng. before the
tutor could call for the book he absent
mindcciiy thrust it back into his pocket
and turned away. Being asked for the
book he apologizcd, hauled out the
other one and retired.
Once III Alumni Hall at Yale shaky
student who couldn't bear to part with
his class discovered in advance Il knot
hole in the floor. He secured the desk
by that hole. Pretty soon he had the
misfortune to drop his pencil. Bend
ing over for it he showed his eXamina-
ton paper down through the knot hole.
Fellows in waiting in the cellar ran off
with it, filled out papers for him, not
too well, but well enough to save him,
for perfectly correct examination was
not consistent with his record, and on
returning signaled 20 him. This time
he had the misfortune to knock lot of
paper off his table and litter the floor
He got down and conscieutiouslv
picked everything up, including the re-
lief papers that came up through the
knot hole.
At another time, where papers were
drawn, one fellow drew two by sleight-
oA-hohu pIOSSoo, pttooCu tH OHc, Sui-
rendered it and went out. Then he
gave the extra one to lame friend
who at once ''crammed" that paper
Then he went in. drew his paper and
calmly substituted the one he knew,
passing well on it and carrying away
for what might be termed outdoor re-
lief, the paper that he drew. This was
kept going all day, and worked as we'll
as Il surreptitious envelope under the
Connecticut secret ballot law.
Another fellow. illustrating alike the
sharpness of the boy and the laziness of
the professor, having practically no
knowledge of one heavy subject that
had been Il 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-siX questions there was
good deal of repetition. Knowing these
questions thoroughly, and not word
outside Of them, he went in. and, sure
enough, the professor had drawn suf- !
ficiently on his earlier papers to enable |
this fellow to answer more than enough /
to pass him. As for the rest, his paper |
was a blank.