The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-10
STANFORD'S TROUBLE.
Two Students Found Guilty
of Cribbing" and
Dismissed.
OTHERS ON THE RACK.
List of Examination Questions
Passed Through a Class.
Room Window.
THE FACULTY IS AROUSED.
More Dismissals Likely to Follow an
Investigation Now Being
Made.
THE FACULTY IS AROUSED.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CAL, Dec.
9.-Stanford University, with all its trust
to the honor of the students, has found
that trust betrayed to such a degree in q
recent examination that unusual steps
have been and are being taken to prevent
a recurrence. The trouble all arose over
an examination recently given in the
economic department of the university.
During the progress of the examination
of the first section of the class (the class is
divided into two divisions). student
passed the paper containing the questions
out of a window, where it was received by
three other students of the second sec
tion-two young men and girl.
1t seems to have been generally under
stood that the same questions on which
the first section was examined would be
given to the second division, and ami
mated by this idea considerable number
of the latter section surrounded the
holders OF the paper and worked out the
questions from the textbooks. AS re-
suit they were all prepared for the lex, ]"
but they did not reckon upon the conse-
Quences of an act which is regarded as an
aggravated form of cheating.
The affair leaked out and the faculty was
aroused at the unsupported state of affairs.
Two students-a young man and young
Iady-were dismissed from the university.
The cases of two others are now under
investigation, and a number of others are
awaiting in fear and trembling the result
of the faculty investigating committee
action.
The committee is composed of Professors
Richardson, Gilbert, Griffin, Murray and
Elliott. Professor Richardson is chairman
of the board. At the first meeting, DR..
Jordan was present for few moments and
advised the committee that the policy OF
the university was to get along without
that class of students who expect to cheat
their way through. He further said, how
ever, that while cheating might be taken as
an index of the students character, it was
not an infallible mark, for there were many
who might be led into it, perhaps once, to
whom the thought was generally abhorrent.
Therefore the committee should be guided
not by the single act OF a man, but by that
act as an illustration of his character. DR..
Jordan, fhen seen concerning the matter,
said:
al do not believe in punishment of stu
dents. We trust to their honor, and if
they are found wanting we must get along
without them. Whatever may be the &C.
ton of the committee in this matter will
be the result of elaboration, and will
stand as the decision OF the university"
Professor Powers, 1t is said, after giving
the class wholesome lecture, did not
urge severe action, but the matter was be-
yond his control, and other professors
were firm in their belief that drastic meas
ures should be adopted to stamp out the
trouble.
President Sheldon of the Associated
Students has taken up the matter to see
what the students are willing to do to pre-
vent a like occurrence and to do away
with a pernicious state of affairs. He will
appoint fifteen students to draw up GER
tain plans to be presented at student
mass-meeting to be held on Wednesday.