Thomas Jefferson High School - Aurora Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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SOLILOQUY To cheat, or not to cheat: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The consequences and embarrassment of failure, Or to sneak that one look, and by receiving the answer, pass. To copy, to failg no more, and by copying to say we end The heart aches and the thousand unnatural results That failure is heir to, 'tis a torture no student could so wish. To copy, to pass, ay there's the rub, For in that mark of 65, what pleasures may come, When we have shuffled oil those painful 30's, Must give us pause: there's the motive That makes eyes wander to the next desk, For who would bear the heavy pressure of learning, The students always wrong, the teachers forever right, The threats of infuriated deans, the graduation delay, The maddened words of parents, as they see there, The red marks as home his report card takes, When he himself might all forgo With a little peek? What student would all this indulge, To sigh and slave upon a miserable existence, But that dread of someday being caught, The hideous consequences, from whose clutches No student escapes, makes one consider, And forces the pupil to bear the coming troubles Then to become involved in deeper ones we are quite aware of. Thus consideration makes cowards of us all, And then all those well planned ways of cheating Are forgotten as we realize what lies in store, And schemes no teacher could ever notice are cast aside, As we reluctantly turn away And decide not to try anything. Soft old bean! Thy suspecting proctor enters, l've made my decision Now may all my theorems be remembered. Stanley Eisenberg 43' W1 ff

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