The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-03
CRIBBING AT COLLEGE.
MANY AND INGENIOUS THE
 METHODS OF LAZY STUDENTS.

Draw Near.
 "Cribbing" is a growing source of worry to college professors whenever the examinations draw near. Yale re- gently expelled one of her best oars men, who was caught employing this method of obtaining high marks with out study, and she may be depended on to keep up the good work.
 There are almost as many ways Of "cribbing" as there are "cribbers, One of the most elaborate and widely used is known as the double roll, It consists of a long narrow strip of pa- per, which is rolled from both ends. A fund of information that may be useful in examinations can be slowed away on this strip. The student must know just where each item is to be found and must practise manipulating it un- til he can use it with one hand. Some of the most elaborate cribs of this sort cost hours of hard labor, almost as many as would be necessary to "cram' on the subject and pass the examina- tion honestly.
 When examination questions can be obtained before the examination, and this happens more often than the col lege professors have any idea of, the common method is to write out a pa per before entering the examination room and substitute 1t for that on which one has been working. Students take great care not to have these pre- viously prepared papers too perfect, and as rule they are only detached when caught in the act of substitution. There are various ways of getting lists of questions before the examinations EWployes in the college printing offices are often dishonest and make a prac- tice of selling questions Sometimes, where the classes are large, the exam nations are held in sections. Some one in the first section will toss a list ot questions out of the window to a wait- ing member of the second section. This happened a few years ago at Cor> nell, and the papers of an entire sec- tion were refused by the examining of ficer, who ordered another examina- tion.
 The old high school practice of bring ing textbooks to the building in which the examination Is being held, and hid- ing them in the wash-room, is also practiced to some extent in the col- leges The student gets permission to leave the room on one pretext or an- other and looks up points on which he is in doubt.
 The meanest of all "cribbers" is the far-sighted individual who looks over his neighbor's paper. Students have actually been known to purchase spec ial glasses for examinations which would enable them to read papers which were being written at some dis tance from them There are many keen students who would not think of cheating in examinations themselves, but who think nothing of allowing some less we'll posted student to look over their shoulders. Of late years faculty effort has been directed against this practice, and there is a growing tendency to hold the man who gives assistance in this manner equally gull ty with the man who accepts It.
 MnJ1rr cf1 hu haao or Jtooit tN college by having some one else pass his entrance examinations. This scheme will not work after the student becomes known, and is dangerous, as the examiners are on the watch for just that sort of thing.
 Princeton university has the reputa- tion among college men of being the most free from the "cribbing" curse of any of the big institutions of learning. This is due to the honor system which has developed there within the last twelve years. In the south the Univer- sity of Virginia Is declared to be abso- ltely free from cheating in examina- tions. The Princeton honor system is based on that so long in force in Vir- ginia, and the story of it's conception and the manner In which it has worked otu may be interesting.
 In 1893 it developed that there was a strong sentiment in favor of the honor system of examinations, instead of the spy system, which was in vogue The faculty was duly petitioned to give the new system trial, and as there had been wholesale cheating under the old method the petition was granted The faculty agreed to let the students su- pervise the examination, and it was provided that each man sign this dec laration at the end of his paper:
 T hereby pledge my honor as gen. tleman that during this examination l have neither given nor received assis- tance.'
 A number of students were suspect ed of cheating, and committee of stu dents investigated. Two freshmen and two sophomores were found guilty, and had the choice of expulsion or of con- fessing to the professor and requesting another examination. One man &C., cepted the alter alternative and the | others left college.
 After two pears the students adopted a formal constitution, fin order to pre-