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N.Y. ad gain the admniraiion of al by having your next suit Custom Ta~kred by ARTHUR F, MARUARDT Campus Tarlo 516 East William St Phone 1422-J TAKE YOUR FRIENDS TO THE CRYSTAL RESTAURANT FOR J- HOP MEALS Breakfast. 6-10 Dinner, 11-2 Short Orders at All.:ours Supper, 4-8 MUSIC WITH YOUR MEALS 601 East Liberty .....s 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 I. 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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THIS Week's Schedule of Special Events Linen Sale First Floor-Left Cotton Bedding Sale First Floor-Right Women's Shoe Sale First Floor-Rear Women's Knit Under- wear Sale First Floor-Rear, Winter Garment Sale Second Floor Whether you want to take a train or make a call, we will get you there on time. Our service is just as prompt in bad weather as on pleasant days. Stark Taxicab Co., phone 2255. tf 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- lm ,I ESTABLISHED 1904 FREE PHONE 1380 For a limited time only a $5.00 Corset made to your measure by the Cooke Corset Co. Largest makers of made-to-measure corsets in the world. I With every order for Suit or Coat. .ZWERDLING Ladies' Tailor and Importer\. I 217.19 E. Liberty Zwerdling Block I Im I I LN mqw_ U111 M M Leave Copy at Quarry's and The Delta ADVERTISI N O -W Leave Ott at students' Supply Store Plaiting and Buttons also made to order I F. - s WANTED WANTED-Position by young lady as maid or waitress in a boarding house or sorority. Address B, care Michigan Daily. 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