The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-06-01
THE vASsAR CONSCIENCE.
Ten Questions Which Search Fair
Students Utmost Thoughts.

Ten Questions Which Search Fair
Students Inmost Thoughts.
The young ladies who are engaged
in the violent exercise of acquiring
knowledge at Vassar lave been inyit-
ed by the department of philosophy to
step right up and have their conscience
probed, says the Louisville Courier
Journal. In the fractional part of
jiffy the inquisitivc department ex.
poets to know by their own confessions
just what sort of girls the students
are. The method is very simple. 1t
consists merely of asking questions
ten QuestiOns-as follows:
/. If the conductor neglected to take
your fare, would you keep the money?
2. Would you tell your teacher be-
forehand that your lesson was not pre-
pared or would you run the risk of not
being called on? If partially prepared,
would you bluff if called on?
3. Would you purposely avoid in
class or examination a girl who you
thought would cheat in order not to
have to report her?
4. Would you exaggerate in order to
add interest to conversation or tell a
white lie to save peoples feelings?
8. Would you take another's plot in
developing a supposedly original story?
6. Is it wrong to tell a credulous girl
harmless but outlandish and untrue
stories?
z. Is it honorable to use pony
/. e., an interlinear Iranslation-in pre-
pairing lesson?
s. If you accidentally saw on your
neighbours examination paper one point
which would enable you to solve a
whole problem, would you take it?
8. Would you allow person to have
an ungrounded unfavorable opinion Of
you?
10. Which is more honorable, to
cheat openly or secretly?
OF course. people, especially human
people. are in the habit of admitting
twenty eight or even thirty times a
day all their weak points. If they
wink at certain shady habits or
thoughts rhey tell everybody about it
right away OF course, Of course!
Hence. do you grasp the effectiveness
and logic of the philosophy department
In its present undertaking?
Far be it from anybody in Kentucky
TO insinuate that the Vassar maidens
are anything but the perfection of hon
esty and virtue-in this wise differing
little from Kentucky maidens-and so
the following responses are offered as
pattern for the subjects to work by:
1. No, indeed; I'd gss out a manda-
tory injunction, il need be, to force the
railway company to take my fare.
e. The ideal Such a question is pre-
posterous. always go prepared.
2. Sure! 1 wouldn't have anything
to do with any CIR; who would do such
naughty thing.
4. Exaggerate? I've never exagger-
ated in my life.
5. I'm capable of inventing my own
plots, thank you.
6. A story is story, whether told
credulous or incredulous girls, so it
would never occur to me to be so
wicked.
z. Not if the faculty can find it out.
8. Nay, maya thousand times nay.
g. How could keep her from It?
10. Neither way is honorable, SO
pass.
This list Of model replies naturally
presents the supposititious respondent
| in the most favorable light If every
yassar girl submits such answers to
the questions propounded the institu-
ton may declare itself an abiding
place Of cherubim and seraphim. As
an indication Of loyalty to their sex
and the college maybe many Of the
students will send in, such sssponses.
Here's hoping they will!
II they do they may net gain pres
tige for tho philosophy departments
process Of conscience sounding. but
who cares7 They viii be standing up
Tor the monumental graces Of their Go
rious sex. And that's the main thing.