Any method to prevent cribbing must be of a radical sort. There is an evil underlying it and supporting it that must be handled without gloves. This underlying evil is the college opinion that stamps cribbing as a thing not wrong in itself. It is the feeling that there is a difference between cheating in an examination, and telling a direct falsehood. In order to correct this state of public opinion, every student should carefully consider cribbing first, as it effects himself, and secondly, in its application to college interests. Self respect is essential to a good reputation. Can the cribber respect himself, and can be expect, that on sober thought, his friends and the college public in general will respect him? Excuse cribbing as much as you can, and the fact that an excuse is needed, shows that all is not right.

Cribbing reaches beyond the reputation of the cribber. It has a broader application. Every Harvard student is interested at heart in maintaining the integrity of his college. Cribbing endangers this integrity; it lowers the meaning of a college degree. Harvard's veritas should never become in any measure tainted with hypocrisie.

In view of these two directions in which cribbing is effective, we would make an earnest appeal to every student to look at things as they are, and from the conviction that must necessarily follow, revolutionize college opinion, so that the cribber will be regarded a cheat worthy only of ostracism.