The Cornell Era argues excitedly over the recent introduction of the honor system at that college. "It has been known for some time," it cries, "that certain professors were very anxious to introduce into the university a system of honors resembling closely that in vogue at Harvard. In the first place it is an attempt to transplant into Cornell soil a plant which has flourished passably well among the cultured shades of Harvard. Perhaps it might be more exact to say that it is an attempt to ingraft upon the Cornell stock an offshoot of the Harvard system. For it is noteworthy that only that portion of the Harvard system has been adopted which was made necessary at that university by circumstances having no parallel at Cornell. The marked feature of the Harvard plan is the elective system which permits a student from the beginning of his sophomore year to ramble at will among the intellectual meats, preserves, pastries and desserts of that grand old storehouse. A less marked feature, but one found necessary from the natural desire of youth for an eccentric and somewhat heterogeneous diet, is the honor system which by holding out a bauble, induces the inconstant youth to adopt a more rational and regular course of intellectual food, much as an indulgent mother persuades her darling boy to eat meat and forego pie by promising him a new rocking-horse. He may eat pie if he chooses and follow it up with a course of equally indigestable pastries, but in that case he will get no rocking-horse. The Harvard youth may, by forfeiting his claim on the Harvard bauble, which happens to be honors, utterly ruin his intellectual digestion, and yet receive his degree."