Caption: Magazine - English Club The Illinois (1907)
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v ril>< I at tho beginning f this article, if worki perfect \\\ w ill reined} tin defect . The honor system \\\\\ not provide better ei nnination rooms. The management of the universit must do thi and the student body in |J noral i- Little to ay about it. It would bo strai ind< 1, for the students who had promised to stop dishonest practices to ask for more commodious quarters in order to lessen the temptation to dishonesty. The Bystem would fail to remove this cause. Neither will the honor system make a lazy man work. It is doubtful if any other system will put ambition into a loafer. This defeel is one that th< possessor alone can remedy. Thus it is r< lily seen that the honor system will not remove this cause of dishonesty. Good pedagogical methods and practices are introduced by the instructors'making efforts to improve themselves along these lines. The university authorities hold the improvement of the instructional methods and force completely in their own hands. The honor system fails again to remove thi- cause. It will, however, entirely remove the a uravation caused by the police system, and will tend to kill t lu tradition which encourages taking advantage i instructors when possible. These are the only t\\ causes which the system does affect and (he more important of the two is not entirely removed bv it. It is always best to accomplish an end in the least expensive method and along the lines of least resistance. Therefore let us see if the other methods BU^ested will not be more economical in accomplish- ing the end in view. In the first place, the whoh> system hinges upon one student telling on the one whom he finds cribbing. This involves dragging out 116
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