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THE S A L E M I T E
Tuesday, December 17, 1929.
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LITTLE THOUGHTS FOR
TODAY
And not by western windows
only.
When daylight comes, comes in
comes the light.
In front, the sun climbs slow,
how slowly.
But westward, look the land is
—Arthur Hugh Clough.
PARAGRAPHICS
Everybody should be filled with
tlie Christmas spirit now after the
festivities Saturday night and the
beautiful candle-light service Sunday
night.
I.isten out for the Senior Christ
mas Carollers on Wednesday eve
ning, and know that the day of de
parture is at hand.
Pardon us, but we must go and
buy some cards and presents. You
know how we feel. All the para-
graphics would be on one subject,
anyway.
WHY MOURN?
Three weeks for Christmas—what
couldn’t we do with them—if we had
them! But we have not. Why cry
—it won’t help—at least not this
year. Next year, perhaps. It might
be worth trying. However, the issue
for this year has been settled and it
would seem, wisely. Every whim at
Christmas time can not be satisfied.
This i& just another olte that has
been scratched off the “Wants” list.
How will you take it.^ The pessi
mist will see Christmas minus a
whole glorious week that might have
been. The optimist will see loads
of fund crammed into two weeks
and those seven extra days in hot
weatlier that will not have to be
spent in hot class rooms and poring
over books. And a full fledged op
timist will see a lot of
for the faculty and expense for the
college avoided. It will take a
mighty thorough optfmist to under
stand clearly ust why all of the
reasons .stated for not having the ex
tra week are real reasons. However,
he will take them all for granted,
and smile. Be a Pollyanna—you
know, one of those “Glad girls!”
Perhaps, after all, it is for the best.
And ten to one, when good ole hot
ole June gets here the very ones that
are doing the most complaining and
the most grieving now will be the
ones to thank their lucky stars—and
their trustees—that there is not an
other extra week to spend up here
studying!
Honor System In
American Colleges
The Present Day Importance
of the Problem of the Hon
or System in American
Colleges
ATTENTION
Note; This is the third of a series
of articles on the Honor System be=
ing printed simultaneously in all the
college newspapers in the United
States beginning on or about No
vember 20tli. A series of five arti
cles dealing with matters pertaining
to the Honor System will follow.
This release is being made by the
Committee on the Honor System for
the National Student Federation of
the United States of America, with a
hope that the students of this coun
try will give serious thought to the
problem of student honesty in our
colleges, and that they will send to
the Pifth Annual Congress of the
National Student Federation repre
sentatives who have well-thought-out
ideas concerning this matter. The
Fifth Congress will meet at Stanford
University on the 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
of January, 1930.
THE PRESENT STATUS OF
THE HONOR SYSTEM
Eighteen months ago the present
chairman of the Committee on the
Honor System for the N. S. F. A.
gathered extensive information con
cerning the prevalence of the Honor
System in American colleges and
universities. The information gath
ered then is believed to be valuable;
conditions have not changed materi
ally since that time.
In reply to a general questionnaire
containing questions pertinent to the
Honor System, 417 colleges sent in
formation. 160, or 30% of these
colleges operate under some kind of
Honor System. In 129 of them it
is used wholly; in 31 of them it is
used only partially. Of these 31,
twenty-one use it only in certain
select advance classes, seven employ
it in certain departments only, while
three have the system in handling
matters that do not pertain to ex
aminations, (e. g. the handling of
library books).
On the other hand, 251 or 61%
of the colleges replying do not have
the honor System. They operate
under the faculty espionage or the
proctor system, whereby the students
are closely watched while they take
their examinations, whereby no trust
is placed in them, and whereby the
shrewder man wins, be he the stud
ent or be he the instructor.
This survey shows that there are
now 10% more colleges using the
Honor System than were shown by
a similar survey to be using it in
1912. In that year 66% of the col
leges using the system were colleges
for men, 17% were colleges for
women only, and 17% of them were
coeducational. In 1928, 15% of
those using it were for men, 35%
were for women, and 50% were co
educational.
Of the 160 colleges using the sys
tem, 61, or 39% are colleges whose
student bodies range from 500 to
1500 in number; 54, or 35%, have
an enrollment of from 200 to 500;
18, or 11%, have an enrollment of
less than 200; 13, or 8%, have an
enrollment ranging from 1500 to
3000; and 10, or 5.5% of the col
leges using the Honor System have
3000 students or more. Of the 160
Honor System colleges, 41% are sit
uated in the South, 36% of them are
situated in the Northeast, 15% are
in the North Central section, and 8%
are in the Western part of the
United States.
Of all the colleges in the South
that replied, 60% use the Honor
System, 36% of all the colleges in
the Northeastern group that replied
use the system. 23% of the colleges
of the North Central group use it,
while 38% of the colleges of the
Western group that sent information
have the Honor System.
In several universities of the
United States the Honor System
works especially well in the Law
School. Are students of law any
more honorable than any other class
of professional students or under
graduates Do professional ethic;
tend to cause a man who would
cheat and defraud in the School of
Arts and Sciences, to terminate
abruptly such practices upon enter
ing a professional school.?
One university has the Honor
System only in its School of Speech
another has it in its School of Busi
ness Administration; another has it
in its School of Veterinary; another
has it in its School of Engineering;
while still another University has
the Honor System in its School of
Architecture.
What influence does the size of
the institution have upon the suc
cess or failure of the Honor Sys
tem.? What influence does the loca
tion of a college or university in a
city or a village have upon the Hon
or System.? Are women more hon
orable than those in other sections.?
This statistical information and
these questions are given with a hope
that students will study them, seri
ously think about them, and form
definite conclusions about the Honor
System as an educational institution.
In what ways does this System give
a student more benefits than the fac
ulty espionage system confers?
TODAY AND TOMORROW
Today! the anticipated joy of go
ing home. Two weeks from today,
the anticipated joy of coming back—
(that’s just giving a little Christmas
gift to the administration). Today
we’ve got the patent for an absolute
cure for the blues—a tonic that stim
ulates excitement and the imagina
tion—a better incentive for miles and
miles of smiles than Mr. Matthews.
Say, wake up! We’re going home
for Santa Claus.
Today we’d give away our last
cent—saving back our railroad fare,
of course. We are even brightening
up the hopes of the faculty by put
ting a few more minutes on our les-
sons—the Christmas con.science of
childhood in evidence. Today we
are living for tomorrow!
Curtain, please—Act. II.
Today two weeks from now there
is a complete metamorpliism in the
characters of our cast. Now we are
rushing around to crowd in last
minute activities, and then not being
able to enjoy them as much as wc
should for thinking of returning t')
school. Tired, sleepy, blistered feet,
bad humored, and a general “hang
over.” Whatta life! We will be be
ginning to live over memories of the
past few days, trying to bring them
back into reality again. Endeavor
ing with all of our charms to keep
within the sounds of the Pipes o’ Pan
—knowing that in a little while even
the echo will be lost. We find our
selves being drawn closer to the
center of the web of our past few
months’ existence, and see our privi
lege of being “footloose” and free
slipping away.
But don’t be discouraged, children,
in the words of the immortal poet
we leave with you this thought be
fore saying “Merry Christmas”-
“If Winter comes, can Spring be far
behind?”
Intercollegiate News
At a recent election at X. C. State
College it was decided by a majority
of seventy that freshman caps would
not be abolished until the spring se
mester.
In the “Sun-Dial from Randolph-
Macon there appears an editorial in
which the passing of the Yo-Yo is
lamented.
The Sophomore Council at N. C.
C. W. has adopted a plan for mak
ing money by selling Christmas seals
every day until the holidays, in the
college post-office.
The first issue of the new literary
magazrine at Wake Forest, The Wake
Forest Student, which will appear
before the Christmas holidays, will
contain contribution.'^' from both
faculty and student body in the form
of poems, prose stories, and essays.
Critical material relative to the
works of Chaucer and Poe will also
be found in the magazine.
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