Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-04-22
ourwITrINo THE FACULTY.
Various Devices of Students to Pass Exam
nations without study.

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nations without study.
At recent meeting of number
Of college men in this city, says the
Hartford Courant, conversation hap
pened to drift to the trials and strug-
giles of examination days. 1t was led
that way by the first story teller, who
said that, having been at one exam
ination where each student drew
separate slip of question, he met a
classmate who had to go in with the
next division. 1.-The thing is not
likely to be a chance, he said to his
friend, but in case 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 came out
triumphant.
But that proved a 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 inter-
lined textbook into his overcoat peck
ct and entered the room. He was
called to the desk and the tutor gave
him a textbook, 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
. reading, 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 apologized hauled out the
other one and retired.
Once in alumni hall at Yale a
shaky student who couldn't bear to
part with his class discovered in adj
\ vance a knot-hole in the floor. He
\ secured the desk by that hole. Pretty
soon he had the misfortune to dro[
bis pencil. Bending over it he showed
his examination 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 a perfectly
g correct examination was not consist
q ent with his record, and on return
!, ing signaled to him. This time he
q had the misfortune to knock lot o.
Il paper off his table and litter the
r floor He got down and conscien
4 tiously picked everything up, includ
; ing the relief papers that came
II through the knot-hole,
At another time, where papers were
w drawn, one fellow drew two BY
v Sleight-of-ha process, passed or
one, surrendered it and went out
70 Then he gave the extra one to a lam,
70 friend, who at once "crammed" tina
paper. Then he went in, drew hi
paper and calmly substituted the on,
: he knew, passing well on it, carrying
? away, for what might be termed cut
door relief, the paper that he drew
This was kept going all day ant
worked as we'll as a surreptitiOus en-
velope under the Connecticut secret
E. ballot law.
i Another fellow, illustrating alik
90 the sharpness of the boy and the lazi
~ ness of the professor, having rrdcti(
~ ~ ally no knowledge Of one heavy sui
70 ject that had been study for th
20 term, went to the records and learne
~ by heart the answers to each of tn
80 twelve questions asked in each Of tn
- previous years, discovering the Will
~ that instead of being thirty-six que'
ne lions, there was good deal of repet
81 ton. Knowing these questions tho
- oughly, and not a word outside {
y. them, he went in, and sure enough
ro the professor had drawn sufficient
~ on his earlier papers to enable tn
fellow to answer more than enOug
to pass him. AS for the rest, his pi
per was a blank.