The sun., 1902-07-19
Cribbing. witchcraft and Coonine...

There IL pretty quarrel botwecn
Princeton University and Phillips An
dover Academy because some pupils ~
the latter we're caught in the act Of
Cribbng at an examination for sd-
mission into the former Cataracts Of
horrifiei ejaculation and homily began
10 roar NJ once, and great still are the
sound and foam thererf IL seemed tn
VA that the punishment ~ such boys
should b- somewhat milder than burn
ing in oIl. and we refused To don sack
seat. Youth has always been degen-
crate in the eye Of gravity and an
tlq,ity and the world has always been
a. Maine went for Governor hESr. No
doubt palgolithIc papas grImbled at the
golngS-on Of the Younger general ion.
and wiscarre-s in the dewy morn Of man
chattered about tie good old timc-
Besides, all the wlse-wagging polls Of
now had hair on cm once and were not
so full OF saws and of virtuOus. improving
commonplscs~ to b" had At a great re-
duct ion from the ruling rates.
OF the many solemn horns now footing
doleftlly over fallen Andover We shall
reproduce the note II only two. Our
first specimen comes from Cambridge
that mighty mother. The Hon. ARTHUR
W RYDER. who has a hobby stable IN
that learned town, writes 10 the Boston
H,rxd that the whole sad phenomenon
il an instance Of that social insanity
which at other times justiiics lotteries
lvnching. and executions for witchcrait
Massachusetts, has much opportunity
FOR the study ~ insanity. but there NAV
he doubts as Co IN. propriety OF Mr
RYDER's classifcat on. A state Of er-
roneous public belief or opinion il not
necessarily a variety Of social insanity.
Practically all the world believed in
witchcraft once Educated opinion and
uneducated opinion agreed on this head
Jp to not -o long ago old England, New
England. the bowels OF Africa. were of a
mind Probably tho majority of tho
form of witchcraft now. Lotteries were
authorized by respectable men and godly
Commonwealths, IN days vet fresh IN
living memory Buildings al Harvard
and elsewhere wcr" built thereby Lot
tere- are not unknown even in church
fairs nowadays LIT US call them
NAHUM probibrum rather than NAHUM
IN Sc: ponder the provcrb. other times.
other manners. and not ascribe insanity
To our wise and pious ancestors. Crib
bing IS a by-product of the esprit dc
corps Why father II on social insanity.
In the bTowntail moth. the gypsy moth
and anti-lmperialism. eastern Massachu-
-ct,s had sad phenomena enough al
ready
Way down South in the land of cotton
the Other horn II footing The Missls-
sippl w"cIIs upon the bosom of the
I harlcs. l. there any7 hing under the
sun that L. quite 50 morally degrading
or has acted hep asks the New Orleans
Times Democrat The lazy cribbing
boy has not that Consciousness. Crib
blng is no hcck upon his honor. no
guilty remembrance His standard IL
slightly incorrect. but he must be judged
according To II, The school code or
Schoolboy code is his. He is no more
"A liar or a cheater because he cribs
than he IL a thief because he tries 10
lug Of a cigar shop Indian or has a pas
sion for rnamellei signs.
II YOU come to that, what ls the truth
and what the lie' In the temple ot
rwhwr don't mean the New Orleans
Ttmss- fJs.ocrat fibS ar. fatal to honor
and the wh,~St lie mus, seem hlocl,cr 3
han grra, darkness In SrEvE>SoN'S
Markhc,m there - sninething ~ the .
rTc,t that the Young girl stealing ogt To- [,
a dane. without her mothers consen, |
irir~ a. vlsihly with blood ~ the assas-
.in, ~ IN ,he-y,~ of rigid and pi,e~s ,
Truth. tho lady lice who tells her servants /,
70 say that she 10 not at home. although