TALE ALUMNT WEEKLY.
EDITOR,
Lewis S. WELCH, °89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR,
WALTER CAMP, '80.
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NEWS EDITOR,
GRAHAM SUMNER, ’97.
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ASSISTANTS,
JOHN JAY, ’98. H. W. CHAMBERS, °99.
R. W. CHANDLER, 1900.
TREASURER,
E. J. THOMPSON.
(Office, Room 6, White Hall.)
Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. O
‘New HAVEN, CONN., JUNE 3, 1897,
THE FACULTY’S NEW MEMBERS.
The great increase in Yale’s teaching
staff in the last decade of unusual
growth, has already been expressed in
figures. It is more to the point, per-
haps, to express the feeling of
those familiar with the comparatively
new members of the Faculty and their
work here, that Yale has attached to
herself men who are well qualified to
take upon their shoulders the great bur-
den of responsibility which comes with
a share in the University’s educational
work. They are men of enthusiasm for
their work, of excellent training for it,
and of sympathy with the ideals and
spirit of the place. We believe that the
latest additions to the staff, chronicled
elsewhere, will also prove to meet these
high requirements of Yale’s teachers.
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THE LOSING OF THE CUP,
To Pennsylvania is due full credit
for her prevailing score at the Inter-
collegiate Games, and we beg to offer
her congratulations thereon. Her fig-
ures of superiority are unfortunately
too high to be affected by any possible
result of swiftness and strategic cam-
paigning on wheels.
But there is nothing for Yale men
to be sad about. They wanted to win,
but they couldn’t. To a team with
more sure points in -it, has gone
victory and the cup. A hard fight is
over. A battle must be lost as well
as won, and Yale lost well. It is by no
juggling with our palates, that we find
sweetness in the fruit that is within
reach. We have before said why there
is reason for much satisfaction with
the work of the Track Team of 1897.
There is just as much reason for this
satisfaction as there was at the finish
of the games with Harvard. A team
of general excellence, well trained and
full of fight, is the most valuable re-
sult of any athletic management. To
those who won points for Yale at New:
York the most cordial congratulations
are in order. To the Captain and to
all members of the Team of 1897, and
to their excellent and modest trainer,
it is in order to say that they deserve
and have the respect and gratitude of»
the Yale community.
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THE ATHLETIC TEAM CAPTAIN.
The Track Team have chosen an ex-
cellent athlete for their leader for an-
other year. They have chosen also a
man who will be an excellent represen-
tative of Yale, and will be sure to keep
a high standard of sportin his manage-
ment of the team. It is cause also for
very general satisfaction, on the part of
those who like to see things in their
right relations, that Mr. Perkins is also
one of the very best scholars of his
class. That fact is very good for ath-
letics in general and for Yale athletics
in particular.
Se oe
The University bicycle team went to
Bridgeport on Monday, May 31, and
won “every event in the meet of the
Rambler Cyclers.
YALE “ALUMNI
CRIBBING.
Where the Trouble is at Yale—~Reme-
dies Suggested.
To the Editor of the Yale Alumni
Weekly, Sir:—
Recognizing that one who ventures
to express himself on the subject of
unfair work in examinations lays him-
self open to the charge of having taken
himself too seriously, I feel warranted
nevertheless in making an _ appeal,
through the columns of the Weekly to
graduates and undergraduates alike,
for a change of attitude toward cheat-
ing in Yale examinations.
We have had our attention called
during the year to the prevalence of
cheating at Harvard, and have gone
straightway and prayed with the Phar-
isee, ‘God, we thank Thee that we are
not as other colleges are,’? and yet any
one who is at all obesrvant will be very
slow in affirming for Yale a superiority
in this regard that justifies boasting.
There is difference of opinion as to
the amount of cheating, as to its cause
and as to its cure; yet I presume all
will admit that there is cheating Cone,
and that it ought’ to be stopped. It is,
of course, not sufficient to believe that
there is no more cheating done at Yale
than at other large universities (or per-
haps not so much); if we are sensitive
to our own honor the question is, rath-
er, cannot this amount be very consid-
erably lessened?
Now, I suspect that Yale men are
unanimous in believing that the sense
of honor and of high manliness is the
supreme and dominant tone in Yale's
athletics; that on the field a dishon-
orable act is absolutely discounte-
nanced; that the man must win his
place by his own endeavor and hold it
by an exhibition of skill and fairness
that cannot be challenged. An. unfair
advantage taken or a mean spirit man-
ifested on the diamond or on the track |
is hissed into speedy retreat.
It is this spirit of hearty approval
for that which is fair and generoug
and undisguised condemnation of that
which is underhanded, comprising as it
does the essence of that quality which
we call Yale spirit, that ought te. be
carried into the classroom.
The question at once arises,
will a man copy a neighbor’s paper in
an examination who would blush
either to do, or to see done, by a Yale
man, a thing equally mean at the field?
Does it mean that the individual’s
sense of honor is merely that which
the crowd is willing to express, and
that he has no self-preserving notion of
right in himself? Or does tt mean that
a different standard of morals prevails
in the classroom, and that which is
wrong in syort ceases to be blame-
worthy in study?
It is true that men are more or less
governed by the code of morals which
the college world sets up, and TI do not
think the statement will be challenged
when I say that the college sentiment
toward cheating: is not one of uncom-
promising hostility. It is, rather, one
of semi-indifference; a man may avail
himself of another man’s work and yet
be a good fellow, not debarred from the
honors which the class have to dis-
pense. Ask individual men if they jus-
tify cheating, and most men will say
no; but these same men do not suffi-
ciently despise the practice to hold in
dishonor those who do not scruple to
do it. A man who is dishonest through
and through is everywhere despised
but it cannot be denied that these So-
called little acts of dishonesty, which
Rae fae yee of “cribbing,” do not
= e from e studen ibi-
Hye condemnation, © PORT DED
ge is point deserves especial empha-
sis, that we, graduates FEL wndereee.
uates, are to a certain large extent re.
sponsible for the dishonor which at-
taches to individual men who are impli-
cated in its actual performance, As
long as the student body is indifferent
or only quiescently hostile, many men
will not feel scrupulous in doing what
on second thought they are surprised at
themselves for having done. As one
man said to me: “The morals of this
cheating business doesn’t bother me
much, for IT know that I am not dis-
graced in the eyes of the class for do-
ing it.”” Now no such statement ought
_to be possible, nor would it be possible
if we would stop talking of the “clever-
pareict of a eee and begin
mark upon
dae p he meanness of the
Futhermore, it is no doubt tr
a somewhat different studied ial a
lowed to prevail in the class room, and
Wwe meet the old sophistry that the
question of individual honor is removed
by the fact that the student is under
Supervision. However much such talk
may be indulged, I.do not think many
men.. believe in it. Its fallacy is
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too apparent. No police court excuses a
culprit on the ground that patrolmen
are walking the streets. Yet it is true
that men argue in a half serious way
to this effect: ‘“‘The whole thing is a
game; if I can crib and not get
caught, I prove my cleverness and de-
serve the higher mark.’’ And, though
aware of the weakness of their position,
men talk themselves at length into a
partial persuasion that there is no
harm in it after all. Men know in reali-
ty that they are always on their honor;
that a dishonorable deed is not changed
in nature by being done in. an instruc-
tor’s presence; that in every examina-
tion they are writing their individual
character down as much as anything,
and if, to get a mark of 2.25, they must
copy from another man’s paper, they
know that they do it by recording for
their manhood a mark well below 2.
The cause of cheating is, it seems to
me, very largely attributable to those
two things. The feeling that the class
will not hold a man seriously in dishon-
or for so doing, combined with the
bolstered up notion that a different
standard admits of different conduct,
the men forgetting for the time that a
thing is being done no less mean than
Signing one’s name to that which is not
his own, posing for what one is not, and
thereby enacting a lie.
If this be a correct opinion as to the
cause of cheating, the line along which
its cure is to be effected does not seem
difficult to suggest. There must be in
the first place a recognition that the
practice is dishonorable; and in the
second place the resident spirit of Yale
against all dishonor must be evoked
in the interest of its supression.
It seems to me that both
Faculty and students have a
part to perform in the ac-
complishment of these two results. To
the Faculty there belongs the task of
characterizing the practice by its true
name and insisting that every known
instance of its occurrence shall _ be
visited with the severest penalty, to
the end that all unfairness be abso-
lutely stopped. This is the first and es-
sential step toward bringing about an
actual belief in and open recognition
of the real nature of cheating; and,
with that established, the native spirit
of Yale men against all dishonor will
not be long in expressing itself. I do.
not believe however, that this sentiment
will assert itself in a controlling way
among graduates and undergraduates,
until the Faculty take the initiative in
declaring that cheating: is of the es-
‘sence of dishonor and must be stopned.
The exact method of procedure
would, no doubt, receive many different
suggestions.
ciently optimistic to believe that this
result can be achieved by an honor sys-
tem. But, in proposing an honor sys-
tem, it should be in fact an honor sys-
tem, having no compromising append-
ages in the shape of affidavits to the
effect that the signer has indeed been
honorable. If it were officially stated
that all supervision of examinations
would be withdrawn after a certain
date, and an appeal were made to the
personal honor of the men to make the
effort successful, I believe that the un-
dergraduate spirit, supported as it
would be by graduate sentiment, would
do for the classroom exactly what it
has accomplished for the athletic field—
establish there a sense of chivalrous
honor.
Tf, after thorough trial, this plan
could not be shown successful, no op-
position could then be made to a return.
with increased severity, to the method
of supervision. But, whether the meth-
od be the honor system or the system
of supervision is not the thing of su-
preme importance; the vital point is
that cheating should stop.
We may or may not agree with the
method which Harvard has adopted for
putting a ston to this practice; but we
can searcely fail to admire the recogni-
tion they have shown of the real na-
ture of the offense, and the fact that
they have set themselves face to face
with the problem, calling the evil by
no polite names and sturdily demand-
ing its extinction. This should likewise
be the end to achieve at Yale: if possi-
ble, by working through the spirit of
the men in question, but, if necessary,
by no less severe a measure than a
resort to the rigorism of Harvard.
We all known that. under the pres-
ent circumstances, there are occasional
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