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REED COLLEGE ANNUAL + 1915 WI THE HONOR SPIRIT NE word that has appeard prominently in discussion of the Whores of student life at Reed College is Hhonor? The idea of honor has a sharp challenge to the mind, wiMnd hart 0f the college student. Most freshmen at not yet past the period of experi- , ience in which moral notions ar fixt; they af'stil eager for the exercise of Choice in ethical questions. Honor has, moreover, a Havor 0f aristocracy which makes its appeal to those who at conseius of superiority in learning. By force of these facts and from the experience of other colleges, infin- ential members of the student body and the faculty hav taken pains to develop here an enthusiastic ttHonor Spirit. The Honor Spirit began to take a part in the life and thought of the college before the end of the first semester. President Foster, in anticipation of the first final examinations, put the question of student conduct therein up to the members of the first elas. They voted to relieve the faculty of the burden of enforcing honesty in these tests, and agreed to make it a ttpoint of honor', not to cheat in examinations. TYith the development of student government, and the granting of authority in matters of student conduct to the Stu- dent Council, honor came to be formulated as a principle of ac- tion in all seool work. Honesty in the preparation and recitation GD tQJ of lessons was recognized as being of as great importance as honesty in examinations. This attitude of the students towards the demands of col- lege administration met with response on the part of President Foster and the faculty. At varius times during the first year, and occasionally since that time the confidence and opinion of students in matters of administrativ policy hav been askt for. Especially thrwthe Student Council and senior c1215 questions of equipment, instruction, finance, and the relations of the col- 1ege t0 the community hav been made matters for student con- sideration and responsibility. From these basic applications of the Honor Spirit in the relations of the students to the administration and instruction of the college its meaning has been extended to make it include the whole life of the college community. At varius times, in chapel and in student-body meetings, students and faculty mem- bers hav made deflnitions and formulations of it. 'In scool work the Honor Spirit requires earnestness, frankness and considera- tions for the rights of others in the use of library, laboratories and the like. In general conduct it includes especially respect for property rights of persons both in and outside the college, economy and care in the use of college property, the prompt payment of dets, and a regard for the reputation of the college 1.11:..LSJ. gilnl- .'.'.'.i.'.-.t;'.- sf:,sW'. . ,'.s.'.s. 'VTL:;: . . .e
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I701 REED COLLEGE ANNUAL -I- 1915 abroad. In athletics the Honor Spirit means fair play and sportsmanship in the best sense of the word. In student gov- ernment it imposes the duty of conscientius servis on the part of ost-holders, and a sense of interest in the welfare of the group on the part of individuals. We can hardly dout the value and wisdom of the adoption and development of honor as a principle in college life. Com- mon-sense seems to indicate that if students and faculty ar using the endowment and equipment of a college for the ends of scolarship, they wil get on better by working together than they wil by opposition. Tradition and experience tend to con- firm the notion that the ends of good-felloship in a group of people with common interests and purposes at best servd by frankness, forbearance, and sympathy. Tho primarily, perhaps, a matter of social significance, honor is not antagonistic to the interests of individuality. Honesty to self is, indeed, the first principle of honor; and the expression of the self-respect which this honesty engenders is the best way of impressing one's in- dividuality upon society. The important results of the Honor Spirit at Reed ar found not so much in tangible realities as in subtle atmosferic qualities. The substitutions of cooperation for distrust and suspicion on the part of students and faculty in the business of study ar not inimical to the advance of scolarship. In this as in the general social relationships those who hav had opportuni- ties of comparison say that in Reed College the bredth of the traditional gulf between faculty and students has been definitly lessend. The Honor Spirit has, of course, not yet attaind perfection as a force in social control. There ar some dissatisfactions, some misunderstandings, some difficulties of organized student life that honor has not obviated. The youth of the college, and lack of traditions make the matter of educating new students for ful Citizenship difficult. Time may remedy this. Every- thing possible has not been accomplisht in four years. The imperfections of translating the Honor Spirit into actions and motivs ar the best guarantee of its continued influ- ence. That its applications be comprehensiv of much, and that its meanings be ritten more deeply on the minds and harts of all who may become connected with Reed is the hope of all who kno what it has alredy done.
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