The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-26

and be sold like hot cakes at
university and college bookstores--f the
priee were not too high and care were
taken to keep, the work out Of the hands Of
the faculty members. clever crlpper
these days has standing among certain
classes Of students which corresponds we'll
with that of the magma cum laude' win
ner, among the 'grlnds
Of course ance in while, a gopher
student likes, to- quit digging and take
things easy. especially if. 1t is in an ex77
amt by a professor who insists on rubbing
it in when a test is due. The fact that,
cribbing is practiced has been emphasized
recently by the -disciplining-o of two football
heroes for yielding to temptation.
The urSctice indeed. has become a fne
art among. certain students at the state
If and the faculty has come to recog-
niZe 1t as an almost unavoidable adjunct
to the college curriculum But 1t has
adopted strenuous measures to reduce II
to "a minimum. - 49,
Score OF Students Dropped.
Within the past two years more than
score of, students have been dropped from
The rolls Of the university on account OF
the corrupt practice. In nearly every IN
stance the matte has been kept quiet so
that when a buray freshman -has $ $, lett col
lege ION account Of his EYES, no one
has suspected, that he had been given ms
walking papers'. by the faculty. Recently
however the professors have decided upon
a more decisive method. Of checking the
,,se of the cribfapd thereafter greater pub;
licHy will bs Sgiyen to cases sot suspen-
SION ftitEif.. d. e. / -as{xt.!a,sasa ~
Upper Ctassn1eu Worst Offenders.
.Altho it may not be gemeEaIly known, IT
Is nevertheless 8 fact that the worst
.'cr1bbers'' in College are -npperclassmen:
that As the members of tile Junior and
sef1ior classess when a freshman first be-
gins his, studies he is given q book. OF
rules and regula tiolas which are supposed
to govern his conduct in college. Prom
1 inent among these rules arethe references
4 TO rcheating ~ One Of the most important
features of the first days lecture are the
instructors comments upon clieating and
as a. result the first year classes are com
paratively free from fcrbhjng." When
the student aentersi upon his sophomore
wear. however, the tbogie' which was held
unto him at The" heg ginning of his college
carreer has been sniSateriallys reduced in size
ana having heard BY this time. of the ex-
tensive "cribbjng., which is practiced by
the upperclassnien.- he loses many of his
scruples in reggards TO TIE spnactlce. M ms
Is not meants toss imply thaf9 cEibb1ng Is
as some of the most ingenfots ''cribbers
are to be fourlt among the entering stu
dents. but taking the class ASA whole, 1t
is comparative free from the practice.
On account Of the large, classes into
which the freshmen are divided it Is i'm
possible to watch each individual in the
examination, and accordingly the student
does not feel that he Is being spotted
hy5 his Instructor ln5tle sophomore veal
tie classes are much smaller and at the
examination the chairs are arranged sc
that communication is very difficult be
tween members of the class. In this wa!
student assumes that his instructor
expects that he is going to ,'CrlD, anc
in some cases it serves to make a crib
bGtrr'' out of student who would otherwise
not be one. -s,.z-. -,tr,,,~, : orr .<re
Temptations OF "snaps."
In the ziiii1n ziiii1nier i, and senior years, the Worl
is alt electfVe, 50 that the classes ar,
mixed LThere are certain classes which
are always small the students taking sucf
work being usually those who are going tt
pursue advanced work. Then there are
the Snaps subjects which require bu
little I study and which are always popular
It,is in the latter that "cribbing" is prac
tiGed to the greatest extent. Most of tht
professors who. offer the ;'tsnap" courses
are invariably Neasys and are so wrapped
up9 In their work that they* take but lit
tlsa precautiop during examinations
Their examinations, usually, consist als'
nf~a great deal of atabularsa and statlstica
5sk see & lnlesss the. student has ap
ss sssss lse seryE closely 1.-THE lectures
dasgazs FtlG W nsster he; mHst crib il
f5tsf Gas 50 alpassing grade. The meth
tg5s ,Ss fsog6g4 ting. .sexam nina tions, are, ais
1ltafF fRa Ss AN example of this, the In
stance is citeu, Of professorsWho put tn
examination Questions the board an
left the classGto"its own resource while h
left the building, instructing the class t
pitt the papers, when completed, on nj
desk So s-as@ - SO.
AS a result examinations are at best
very poor test of "A students knowledg
Of a subject, and for this reason the
have been abolished in many Of the large
institutions of the country; Many g
n University
nesota are ines favor of 'abolishing exam
nations, realizing that they are a fare
III, most instances seyeral, ,gof the pro