The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-06-18

Pierce kept his place on the platform,
end did not catch any of them peeping at
the books while they were writing; that
the examination was about abstruse mat.
ters which they had never been called
upon to recite, and in which they could
not have passed creditable examination
without the use of the book. This was
startling news to Principal PIERCE, so he
ordered an immediate examination OF the
matter. He said that he would follow
the example of another great school of
similar rank --Princeton-and would make
student body" of the senior class. A
committee OF three young men and two
young women, consisting of Messrs.
Caty. Joy Winans, Ed Young, and Misses
Thomas and BiXby, was appointed to
investigate the matter and to judge any
who might he called before it.
! The committee met i'll q room assigned
for that purpose and called in all the 9TH
er mem bers OF the class, but no two OF
the others were allowed in the room at
the same time. Each witness was close
ly questioned about his or her conduct
at the examinations and as TO the con-
duct of all the others in the class. Near
ly all in the class denied that they had
cheated IN any way: but the evidence OF
some mem berS OF the class WAS against
nearly all the others.
Two young women confessed at once,
and the committee recommended their
dismissal from the school, before the
commencement, which is set for June
oath.
The friends OF the young LADIES who
are about to be expelled are now making
matters interesting at the normal school.
Counturcharges of all sorts are very
numerous. 1t is charged that such work,
and far worse has been going on at the
school for two years; that almost every
pupil has done some such examination
work; that one or two members of the
ipqustorial committee have confessed
guilt OF the same Methods that great
many others known to have done the
same work have been passed as guiltless;
that the two about to be expelled are used
as scapegoats. merely because they were
honest enough to confess. that telling was
encouraged by the committee and most
OF the faculty; that one girl has been per-
secuted so much that she is connned TO
her bed with serious illness; that long
lessons in school law and such matters
were assigned and were never recited or
reviewed; that eighteen or twenty pages
of such work were sometimes given for
one lesson that time which should have
been devoted to recitation and explana-
ton was often devoted to the telling of,
funny stories, or stories alleged to be
funny; that in Professor Dresslar's ad-
dress concerning this matter he mad con-
fessed to using the same expeGients in
his school examinations; that the major
ity OF the faculty are against the further
prosecution of this matter: and that the
class has had from those in authority
enough object lessons of this kind to war
rant the adoption of the expedients used.
Mem bers Of the class charge that at the
time OF the visit OF the legislative COM
mittee to the school, last March, 100 or
$50 Eighth and Ninth grade pupils of the
normal training department of the public
schools or the city were taken into the
assembly room to fill UP vacant seats SO
that the legislative committee would ne