Education: Northwestern's Honor

Last week the student council of Northwestern University reported unfavorably on a proposal to embrace the honor system. Midwestern students are not yet ready for it, said Councilman Hollis Peck, of Sioux Falls, S. Dak. "They're a motley crew, without the faintest notion of what honor is in respect to school work. At the University of Virginia the student body follows the honor system successfully, for Virginians are born gentlemen. Princeton and other eastern schools also have students of integrity who respect the honor system."

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