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plying high scholarship. They are
not affected materially by the honor
system. They are "honorable" al-
ready and need no system to enforce
their strict observance of the honor
code. Also they do their work satis-
factorily in any case and thus are
not materially benefited by an honor
system.
soor students who are honest also
gain nothing by the change. Being
honest it makes no difference to the
poor student whether an instructor
be in the room during examination pe-
riod or not. In fact the honest stud-
ent is to all practical purposes alone
when writing his examination. Now
the only way in which the mediocre or
poor student can possibly be benefited
by the honor system is by its inducing
the dishonest student to mend his
ways. When there is cheating the av-
erage of the class is raised, the cheat-
ers getting high marks. Most grad-
ing is done on the "class average"
basis and hence the man on the mar-
gin is the one to suffer if the average
goes up. We need not bother about
the good student, a slight shifting of
the average does not concern him for
he passes anyway. It is the marginal
man we must think of, for when the
marks of the good students, plus the
marks of those who have cheated are
added up and averaged, the poor stud-
ent's grade is apt to fall below. This
dispels the idea of some people who
say that a man who cheats only hurts
himself; it is not so, he hurts the mar-
ginal student. The same thing is true
when an "absolute grade" is used as
the passing mark, for in the end all
class work must be adapted to the
average ability of the men in the class.
No passing grade can ever be really
absolute. If experience proves that
few men can pass the absolute grade
that has been set, the character of
the work is made easier s&that more
of them can pass. It must be so.
This being the case then-the mar-
ginal man suffering from the dishon-
esty of the crook--is it to be expected
that an honor system will improve the
crook? There are very few good stu-
dents who are dishonest, if for no
oher reason than that they don't have
to be. Those good students that are
dishonest come to the point of cheat-
ing because they have been too lazy
to do their work. Will an honor sys-
tern induce such to use the ability
they have and thus put them in a class
with the good students who are hon-
est? Unquestionably it will--some of
them. Just one factor is to be con-
sidered and that is the degree of their
laziness. Those of low degree lazi-
ness will be shamed into working,
those of high degree laziness will wel-
come an opportunity to be more sloth-
ful than ever, trusting to bluff and
cheating. I do not see how the de-
fenders of the honor system can do
more than guess that a majority will
fall in the first class named. I
guess that a majority will fall
in the other class; but I am will-
ing to compromise and call upon the
opposition to meet me half way and
admit that probably an equal number
will fall in each group, and nothing is
gained. So far we have not found
justification for the honor system.
Iow about the poor student who is
dishonest?! He is in the only remain-
ing group to be considered. Under
the honor system he would have two
very strong inducements to cheat:
(1) The fact that he was a poor
student anyhow and must make every
word in his examination paper count
for something, and (2) The fact that
dishonesty is now resorted to more
easily than under the old system. And
when he sits there, biting his finger
nails, and sees the good students who
are honest finish their papers and
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walk off complacently, and sees the
good students who are dishonest
fumbling with extra papers*
glancing frequently at their
watches and doing all those other
little things that are not "sure evi-
dence," and when he sees the mediocre
students who are even Detter than he
knitting their brows over their work,
what is our poor student who was
formerly dishonest going to do? Sud-
denly reform? Well, allright, I'll grant
you some of them, and I think it a
magnanimous grant; but let me claim
the rest whom I think would give in
after a few qualms of conscience and
hand in astonishingly able papers to
help raise the standard. Thus we are
no further toward justifying the
honor system than we were at the be-
ginning.
In brief I wish to clinch the point
that honest students need no honor
system to keep them honest, and that
not enough dishonest students will be
reformed to counterbalance those who
will take advantage of greater op-
portunities to be dishonest. And fur-
ther, that it is always the marginal
student who suffers from the dishon-
esty of his fellows and nothing should
be done to make his lot more hard.
The success of an honor system de-
pends in part upon the way in which
it is administered. In general there
are two methods. In both the stud-
ent pledges himself not to receive
help, in the one, however, he also
pledges to report violations of the
code that he observed. The first, the
real honor system, gives widest op-
portunity for abuse, the dishonest man
having practically nothing to fear.
The other sort I think is improperly
called an "honor" system. Every
man in the room becomes a guard.
The strongest motive for being honest
is still the fear of being caught. In
fact the fear of being caught is inten-
sified for every man becomes a po-
tential watchman and the disgrace
following detection is more complete.
'How can there be true honor when
the most potent restraining influence
is fear? It is stultifying to the hon-
est man, especially if he feels obliged
to tattle; and it is a relic of boyhood
days for every sport loving man to
hate a squealer. Especially is this so
in the case of the honest man who has
gained nothing by the honor system,
and who may properly resent having
virtual spies all around him who have
not authority such as is invested in
the instructor. Call such measures
"self-government" If you will, but
please not an "honor system."
Claims that honor systems are
working successfully here and there
prove nothing. Nobody can know
positively whether an honor system
is working or not, and nobody can be
sure that the scholastic standing is
not artificially high to the misfortune
of the marginal students. I strenu-
ously protest against introducing 'any
honor system that gains nothing for
the honorable man and robs the medi-
ocre student of his best assurance that
the class average will be a legitimate
one, that is by removing the instructor
from the room and inviting the crook
to do his worst.
KIRK H. PORTER, Grad.
CHEMICAL SOCIETY CONVENES;
I. J. CARNEY'TO READ PAPER
R. J. Carney, instructor in analytical
chemistry, will read a paper on "The
Determination of Thorium in Monazite
Sand," at the January meeting of the
University of Michigan branch of the
American Chemical society, which will
be held at 4:15 o'clock this afternoon,
in room 151 of the chemistry building.
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OPPOSES HONOR SYSTEI
AND PTU1 ET TNOTIN
TO 1 JASE BY S1'STE'
} ditor, The Michigan Daily:
I regret that I cannot be in sym-
patly with the "Ionor system." Any.
movement which aims at such laud-
able ends and solicits our assistance
towards raising tle standard of honor
amongst college men and toward giv-
ing fuller opportunity for the better
expression of high ideals certainly,
has a presumptivo claim upon ou
heartiest support. Therefore I have
not ome to my conclusion hastily
nor without weighing the question
fairly, after careful observation. Let
us see what claims are made for it.
There would be no object in intro.
(hicing an honor system unless it
aimed toward the ultimate good of
somebody. Those concerned are the
faculty and students. I think we may
properly leave the faculty out of con-
sideration for they have nothing to
gain or lose. Students we must divide
into more or less arbitrary groups.
Take first the good students who are
honest, and I use the word good im-
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