The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-20
New Rule at Washburn Creates
CONSERVATION.
Honor System in Examinations
Is Abolished.
HAND DROPS HARD.
One Entire Academy Glass Loses
All Its Credits.
Two Students "CAught in the
Act" Expelled.

Consideration mas struck deep down
into the hearts of the lads and lassies
of Washburn college.
They are strolling about the campus
shaking their heads in a strange man
ner and whispering mysterious some
things to one another.
All the while the members of the fac
ulty are meeting with a frequency
which indica ties the discussion Of most
weighty matters
What is it all about?'
"Oh just merely some cribbing that's
going on" said a pretty girl with a
shrug of her shoulders.
The college circles have been torn
asunder by rulings of the faculty re-
lating to Cribbing during examination
and the use of ponies" for translations
in some of the Latin and Greek classes.
In certain of the college classes the
honor system has been in vogue. The
honor system provides that each stud
ent shall be placed on his honor not to
avail himself Of any outside aid in the
ing the period that the examination is
on the students participating run the
class and the instructor turns over the
supervision to the student body after
attending to The small details which
surround the preparation of the exam
ination.
The majority of the classes. however,
are not managed by the honor system
and the instructor remains in the room
to see that the examinations are car
ried out regularly and that no cribbing
from either books or brighter students
is permitted.
The fell hand of the faculty has been
dropped upon these latter classes. One
entire class in the academy that was
caught cribbing during an examination
has been deprived of It's credits IN
Latin. All of the credit for the work
done by the class has been wiped off
of the records and this work must be
done over next year. No more classes
for the remainder of the term will be
held in Latin for this particular body
of, students.
Two students who were caught
using a translation in the Y. M. c. A
house on the campus have been eX-
PEELED. The boys were very busy go
ing over the work which had been
outlined and were using pony" to
aid them in getting a more classic
translation.
Never before has the faculty ruled
so vigorously. Heart to heart talks
have often occurred but expulsion
from school has never before been
melted out as a punishment
AS the result of all of these faculty
meetings. some of which have been
very exciting with loud voiced dis
cussion the students have been &C
quainted with an ultimatum which
spells expulsion if they are caught
practicing the forbidden methods of
getting better grades.
The tumUlt has reached such a
stage that it even affected a very
staid professor of philosophy who
never before gave this waywardness a
thought.
Abstruse subjects. which relate to
meta physics, psychology and mental
philosophy, are wont to occupy this
professors attention and he has never
given a moments thought to possible
schemes of getting grades which did
not eInanate from hard study. As a
result some of the more easy honor
students have been inclined to vote
him easy during tests and final ex-
aminations and have "cribbed" rather
freely.
This staid professor, however, re
Gently announced a new system of
seating his classes during examina-
lions which makes possible a close
check on the examination papers.
Certain students are seated side by
side and if there is too much SINH
larity in the papers returned after the
examination, the professor has a
chance to check the fault and have a
talk with the supposed guilty ones.
Nothing that has happened this
year has caused such talk as this
stand taken by the faculty.