CRIBBING IN EXAMINATIONS.
Much has been made, and justly, of the twenty-two boys out of thirty-one who were guilty of cribbing in their examination for Princeton University. These youths are said to have come from Christian homes, they studied in a Christian institution, and they were examined with a view to entering a Christian university. The dishonorable means used have received severest reprobation. Yet that is not the whole of the revelation made. Scholarship, sound education, mental discipline, were not the supreme concerns of the boys, but to get through with their studies and secure an unearned diploma. The discussion of the affair has brought out other important facts. These twenty-two are not the only sinners in the land. Rottenness at the very foundation of our intellectual thought and life was discovered in other places. Large numbers, so the investigation shows, care nothing for a thorough education; they want only the outward badge of scholarship, no matter how secured. Perhaps we must go deeper. A teacher testifies that institutions themselves make claims which they9can not meet and which their students know they do not satisfy. “Their claims are not true, their scholarship is not honest.” This at least deserves investigation. How can we expect morality to prevail in political and professional life if the very fountains of education and thought are poisoned?—Homiletic Review.