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 7. If you were charged with cribbing by what kind of committee would you prefer to be heard,—a committee of older members of the faculty, a committee of younger members of the faculty chosen by the students, or a committee of students? Please state the reason of your answer.

8. Do you think it more objectionable to receive information than to give it?

9. Would you volunteer information to a committee of the faculty concerning a fellow student who to your knowledge had cribbed?

10. To a student committee?

11. Would you give information in either case if asked to do so?

12. What kind of punishment or procedure if any do you think is likely to be most effective in curbing the practice of cribbing?

The list to whom the questionnaire was sent was a carefully selected one comprising members of all classes, representatives of all organizations, and men of all types and affiliations. I explained that by cribbing I meant to include the using of text books or other written helps, the receiving of help of any sort from other students, or the giving of help of any kind to such other students. Students were not asked to sign their names to the papers returned, and it was indicated that the information obtained would not be used in any way to the detriment of individual students. A large percentage of the papers were returned, and every one, so far as I remember, seemed to answer the questions seriously and frankly. The papers were "keyed" in such a way as to make it possible to tell which came from men living in fra-