. THE KENTUCKY ALUMNUS 9
conduct compel him to respect their integrity.
The fact that one student cheats is no justification for another one
cheating in order to maintain an equal or superior standing. Self respect
and integrity are much more to be sought than mere class standing.
Class standing does not make for success in the world when divorced
from honesty.
There is no use in talking about enforcing an honor system in any
University until there is an overwhelming sentiment in favor of it-
sentiment in the students and sentiment in the faculty. And too, this
sentiment must be properly applied and directed to make it eiective.
If concentrated it will be edective ; if scattered it will fail as indicated
‘ in the case under discussion. This sentiment must be present when
E the system is adopted. It cannot be developed after the adoption of the
system.
i The first requisite for such sentiment is that the faculty must be
  edective as teachers, strong and courageous and possessed of a supreme
i contempt for all forms of dishonesty not only in class room work and
examinations, but in all the affairs of their college, business and social
life. What respect will a student have for the honor system if he knows
that his instructor has used unfair means to attain any position, ad-
vantage or favor? 'What respect would a student have for the honor
system under an instructor who would wink at dishonesty, for example, i
in order to win an athletic contest? Student sentiment will not rise
above faculty sentiment, but it can be made to come up to the level of it.
It is not charged that such a. state of affairs exists in the faculty, but
it is insisted upon that the faculty must be known by every student to
take a most positive stand on all moral questions before it will be
respected on any moral question. · i
The natural leaders among the student body must be won over to .
high ideals, then the student body will follow. It is the business of the ·
faculty in their daily walk, talk and example, to influence the student _
body. There is no subject taught in the University that cannot be used E
g as material for developing character, and the instructor is recreant to L
Q his duty who does not have this conception of his work.
‘ It is ent·irely possible to have an effective honor system, but it must _
be built from the ground up and not from the roof down. Any effort ·
at an honor system must necessarily fail until there is first a fine moral Q
atmosphere and an overwhehning sentiment which would make life in- v
tolerable for a dishonest student.
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There is a sad lack of respect, loyalty and affection  
{same the cam on the part of our students for their Alma Mater.
This is particularly noticeable in the Alumni. It E
is no less true of the undergraduates. There seems to be a "germ," as ‘